عنوان

African languages in a digital age :

شابک

0796923000

شابک

0796923019

شابک

1552504735

شابک

9780796923004

شابک

9780796923011

شابک

9781552504734

شابک اشتباه

0796922497

شابک اشتباه

9780796922496

شماره

b720823

عنوان اصلي

African languages in a digital age :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Don Osborn.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Ottawa :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

International Development Research Centre,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xvi, 150 pages)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.

متن يادداشت

1. Introduction. -- 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. -- 8. Keyboards and input systems. Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

With increasing numbers of computers and penetration of the Internet around the world, localization of the technology and the content it carries into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localization, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to t.

عنوان

African languages in a digital age.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780796922496

موضوع مستند نشده

African languages-- Data processing.

موضوع مستند نشده

Computational linguistics-- Africa.

موضوع مستند نشده

Foss ̌numřique-- Afrique.

موضوع مستند نشده

Langues africaines-- Informatique.

موضوع مستند نشده

Linguistique informatique-- Afrique.

موضوع مستند نشده

Logiciels-- Internationalisation-- Afrique.

موضوع مستند نشده

Computational linguistics.

موضوع مستند نشده

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- African Languages.

موضوع مستند نشده

Africa.

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

FOR-- 001000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Osborn, Donald Zhang.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Human Sciences Research Council.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

تاريخ عمليات

20201208123050.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y