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Corporate slide masterWith guidelines for corporate presentationsWelsh PPT template
The title slide of your Welsh language PowerPoint presentation should contain the Welsh Government logo and Welsh URL address as positioned here on the red template areas. Do not alter the size or position of these areas.You are NOT REQUIRED to put th branding on subsequent slides in your presentation
Welsh Government
Why language technology resourcesmatter to Welsh and other less-usedlanguages.
Gareth Morlais at LT-Innovate
Summit, Brussels18/05/2016
The case for generating language resources for less-used languages like Welsh1. Makes it easier for big companies like
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Nuance to offer services in our languages
2. So our language speakers can use voiceas well as screens & keyboards in their interactions
3. Future-proof our languages and help protect them from ‘digital extinction’ by ensuring they’re still relevant and usable on mobile
The case for generating language resources for less-used languages like Welsh1. Makes it easier for big companies like
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Nuance to offer services in our languages
2. So our language speakers can use voice as well as screens & keyboards in their interactions
3. Future-proof our languages and help protect them from ‘digital extinction’ by ensuring they’re still relevant and usable on mobile
The case for generating language resources for less-used languages like Welsh1. Makes it easier for big companies like
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Nuance to offer services in our languages
2. So our language speakers can use voiceas well as screens & keyboards in their interactions
3. Future-proof our languages and help protect them from ‘digital extinction’ by ensuring they’re still relevant and usable on mobile
How many languages do the big guns actually support..?
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Apple Sirilanguages
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Position in the league table of languages,ranked by numbers of speakers• Catalan 87 (87th most spoken in the World)• Galician 122• Basque 159• Welsh 166• Irish 172• Breton 193• Scottish Gaelic 208
(Source: Wikimedia)
Number & position of Wikipedia articles• Catalan 507k (17:steady)(17th higest number of Wiki
articles)• Galician 130k (46:falling)• Basque 246k (31:rising)• Welsh 69k (64:steady)• Irish 37k (88:falling)• Breton 58k (72:steady)• Scottish Gallic 13k (118:rising)
(http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/ Feb’16 accessed May’16)
Cynllun Gweithredu Technoleg a Chyfryngau Digidol Cymraeg Welsh-language Technology and Digital Media Action Plan Marchnata a chodiymwybyddiaeth Marketing and awareness raisingYsgogi’r prif gwmnïau technoleg Motivating the main technology companiesYsgogi datblygiad o becynnaumeddalwedd a gwasanaethaudigidol Cymraeg newydd
Encouraging the development of new Welsh-language software applications and digital servicesYsgogi creu, rhannu a defnyddiocynnwys digidol Cymraeg Stimulating the creation, sharing and consumption of Welsh-language digital contentCefnogi arfer da yn y sector cyhoeddus, y sector preifat a’rtrydydd sector
Supporting good practice in the public, private and third sectors
Wishlist for Welsh1. Speech to Text2. Better Machine Translation3. Virtual Personal Assistant
How we could work together• Build ‘enablers’ with a crowdsourcing
element, so language speakers can help build and improve their own resources (Speech to text: “which word do you hear?”)
• Semantic & ontology tools in more languages DBpedia, WordNet, etc
• Plug into European networks: feed into new initiatives & benefit from past ones
• More LT skills and training
Gareth Morlais May [email protected]:Jeremy Evas (Cardiff University); Georg Rehm (Meta-Net); Delyth Prys & Dewi Bryn (Bangor University)Gareth Cardew-Richardson, Heledd Daniel, Daniel, Iwan Evans, Jade Thomas-Rowlands Rowlands (Welsh Government)
Corporate slide masterWith guidelines for corporate presentationsWelsh PPT template
The title slide of your Welsh language PowerPoint presentation should contain the Welsh Government logo and Welsh URL address as positioned here on the red template areas. Do not alter the size or position of these areas.You are NOT REQUIRED to put th branding on subsequent slides in your presentation
Welsh Government
Diolch | ThanksSlides: bit.ly/WelshLTGareth Morlais@digitalst
