MIT2 Demos Software at Technology Conferences in Greece

June 12, 2000
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Marilyn Mason, President of Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2), has just returned from Athens, Greece, where she demonstrated MIT2's orthography conversion software at a Workshop entitled "Developing language resources for minority languages: reusability and strategic priorities" (May 30th), as well as the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), which was held 31 May - 2 June.

Her papers ("The State of the Art of French Creole Language Resource Engineering" and "Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based NLP systems and applications") have both been published in the Workshop / Conference Proceedings.

Following on the heels of similar presentations at two technology conferences in Seattle, Washington (USA) a few weeks earlier, considerable interest has been stirred within the natural language processing (NLP), machine translation (MT), translation memory (TM), language engineering (LE), and language resources (LR) communities around the globe.

More and more, MIT2 is being recognized as a significant player in the arena of porting sparse data / minority languages (especially Pidgins and Creoles) to other language technology tools, such as spell checkers, machine translators, speech-to-text and text-to-speech applications, etc.

Located in Boston, Massachusetts (USA), MIT2 fosters research and development activity on behalf of French-, Portuguese-, and English-related Creoles, as well as other minority and vernacular languages, and is actively seeking corporate investment capital and corporate strategic partnering relationships.

Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2)
P.O. Box 181015, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 USA
Tel: (+1) 617-247-8885, Fax: (+1) 617-262-8923
E-mail: mit2usa@aol.com
MIT2 Web Page: http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html

Koutwazi / Courtesy of The Creole Clearinghouse