Javanese Archives

PanLex in Yogyakarta

December 6, 2018 || David Kamholz

Categories: News

Tags: Acehnese, Batak, Borobudur, Buginese, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, Java, Javanese, Prambanan, Sundanese, under-served languages, Yogyakarta

On November 25, the PanLex team began a month-long stay in Yogyakarta, a city on the island of Java in Indonesia. Mataram, the historical region in which Yogyakarta is located, was controlled by several medieval and early modern kingdoms, and then for two centuries was part of the Dutch East Indies. The region is home to two […]

Enabling Radically Inclusive Machine Translation (part 3)

November 29, 2018 || David Kamholz

Categories: Machine Translation, PanLex Database

Tags: Android, Egyptian Arabic, Google Translate, Javanese, machine translation, Meadow Mari, Microsoft Windows, multilingual dictionaries, under-served languages, Uyghur, Western Punjabi, Wu Chinese

In the first two posts in this series, we elaborated our belief that all people should be able to use their native language to exercise human rights and have access to opportunity. We showed that machine translation technology currently falls far short of this goal, but that there are realistic ways to make progress. In […]