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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R63301/01
Title:	Language Engineering Resources for British Isles Indigenous Minority Languages (LER-BIML)
Principal Investigator:	Wilson, Dr A
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Project Partners:	Bangor University Queen's University of Belfast Sabhal Mor Ostaig University College Cork University of Bedfordshire
Department:	Linguistics and English Language
Organisation:	Lancaster University
Scheme:	Fast Stream
Starts:	17 March 2002	Ends:	16 September 2003	Value (£):	61,100
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Human Communication in ICT
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Creative Industries
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The indigenous minority languages of the British Isles (or BIMLs - Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Ullans and Scots) are becoming increasingly significant as devolved government and stronger ethnic identities take root. Language engineering solutions for these languages are now becoming an urgent need. These are needed not only for monolingual content management but also to aid translators and interpreters, since the BIMLs are always used in bilingual contexts alongside English. To develop such solutions, basic language resources - and especially machine-readable text corpora - are required. The recent EPSRC-funded projects MILLE and EMILLE have provided a great service to the non-indigenous minority language communities in the UK by locating existing resources, investigating end-user needs and wants, examining basic technical issues, and beginning to generate appropriate resources. However, no such consolidated survey or examination of issues has yet been undertaken for the BIMLs. The present project thus has three broad goals: first, to survey the existing resources and tools for the various BIMLs; second, to obtain information about end-user needs and wants in these areas; and, third, to investigate some of the technical and practical issues that the BIMLs raise, primarily for the collection, transcription and annotation of spoken corpus material. The latter will involve collecting and annotating a small sample corpus of spoken Welsh and Gaelic.
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