The MALEX Programme

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The concept

The concept is to create an integrated computerised language system for Malay in order to provide the linguistic input for the  technologies required to develop marketable language-based products for Malay.

 

The programme team

Dr Gerry Knowles

Address: Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University , UK .

Email: g.knowles@lancaster.ac.uk

Website: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/gerry/gerry.htm

 

Professor Zuraidah Mohd Don

Address: Department of English, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia .

E-mail: zuraida@um.edu.my

Website:

 

Output: what MALEX can do

Provide qualitative and quantitative information on Malay

  • morphology
  • syntax
  • lexis
  • pronunciation
  • prosody

And contribute to

  • text-to-speech research (TTS)
  • automatic speech recognition research (ASR)
  • the development of other language-based technologies for Malay

For more information about specific MALEX outputs, click here.

 

Specific projects

  • Word Class in Malay
  • Adverbs and adverbials in Malay
  • Making Fasih fluent
  • Extracting linguistic information from Malay speech waveforms
  • Malay lexicography project

For more information about specific MALEX projects, click here.