LANGUAGES

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• David Barber
• US Air Force

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• Approximately 7000 languages worldwide
• Which are appropriate for development of machine
  translation pairs?
• Cost
• Time

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• Language Pairs
• Commercial Users
• Facilitate business opportunities across national
  borders
• Government Users
• Diplomacy
• Operations
• Intelligence

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• Language Pairs
• Commercial Users
• Most common languages
• Government Users
• Most common languages
• Languages that do not in the foreseeable future
  have a commercial purpose focus on areas of
  military or potential military operations

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• Future government direction
• Language pairs addressing the Global War on
  Terrorism (GWOT)
• Examples Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, Cebuano
• Language pairs for current military operations
• Examples Arabic, Pashto, Dari, Urdu
• Language pairs from sources of science and
  technologies
• Examples French, Chinese

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• Future government direction
• New specific domains of currently developed
  language pairs
• Parallel corpora
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

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• Conclusions
• Government is a significant user of language
  processing technologies
• Requirements are often different from other users