Pennsylvania, USA (EurekAlert): In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute (LTI) have publicly released spoken and textual data they’ve compiled on Haitian Creole so that translation tools desperately needed by doctors, nurses and other relief workers on the earthquake-ravaged island can be rapidly developed. Since Carnegie Mellon began to make the data publicly available last week, a team at Microsoft Research has used it to help develop an experimental, web-based system for translating between English and Haitian Creole.
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