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NeLRaLEC

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Summary: Nepali Language Resources and Localization for Education and Communication (NeLRaLEC) is a major European-Nepali joint project to develop language technology - including corpora, basic localised software, text-to-speech technology, and a corpus-based dictionary - for the Nepali language.

Project Description

The NeLRaLEC project has been funded by Asia IT & C Programme of the European Commission. Led by the Open University, UK, the other project partners are Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya and the Central Department of Linguistics at Tribhuvan University from Nepal, and Lancaster University, UK, Göteberg University, Sweden and the European Language Resource Association (ELRA), France, from Europe.The project office is located at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal, which also looks after its management and day to day operations.

The main objective of this project is to further integrate Nepal and neighbouring regions in the Information Society so that they can exploit Information and Communication Technologies through the medium of Nepali, ensuring that this is sustainable. To achieve this goal, the project's main activities are:

• gather text and speech corpora representing examples of written and spokentexts of literary and other genres available in Nepali language, to form thefoundation for all subsequent activities;
• produce industrial-strength localised basic software for Nepali;
• produce a corpus-based dictionary of contemporary Nepali and developbasic language processing capabilities for Nepali;
• produce speech technologies for automatically reading Nepali text;
• disseminate technologies to schools and universities and local communitiesand evaluate their use there.

The target groups for this project include schools and universities and associated organisations and communities in Nepal, public administration bodies including national and local government, cultural organisations devoted to Nepali, software and media industries in Nepal and universities teaching and researching into the Nepali language.

Our Partners

Open University - Prof. Pat Hall of the Open University is Principal Investigator of the project.

Purpose of Research

Collaborative Research

Project Funder

European Union