Difference between revisions of "The MaLex Project"
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The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is an in-depth annotation of representative corpora of the languages of Malawi, starting with [[Chichewa]]. | The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is an in-depth annotation of representative corpora of the languages of Malawi, starting with [[Chichewa]]. | ||
| − | The goals of TypeCraft within the | + | The goals of TypeCraft within the MaLex project are: |
| − | * an in-depth linguistic annotation of representative text fragments from Chichewa, Ciyawo and Citumbuka. | + | * an in-depth linguistic annotation of representative text fragments from [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_iso639.asp?code=nya Chichewa], Ciyawo and [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=TUW Citumbuka]. |
* within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS is of special importance. | * within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS is of special importance. | ||
Revision as of 12:49, 8 July 2008
The MaLex project is a cooperation between the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) at the University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies (ISK) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. The project is financed by NUFU. Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Al Mtenje, University of Malawi, is the coordinator in Malawi.
The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is an in-depth annotation of representative corpora of the languages of Malawi, starting with Chichewa.
The goals of TypeCraft within the MaLex project are:
- an in-depth linguistic annotation of representative text fragments from Chichewa, Ciyawo and Citumbuka.
- within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS is of special importance.
MaLex supports at present one graduate student from Malawi. For more information follow this link.