Using Diverse Information Sources to Retrieve Samples of Low Density Languages
Andrew MacKinlay · 2005
Language samples are useful as an object of study for a diverse range of people. Samples of low-density languages in particular are often valuable in their own right, yet it is these samples which are most difficult to locate, especially in a vast repository of information such as the World Wide Web. We identify here some shortcomings to the more obvious approaches to locating such samples and present an alternative technique based on a search query using publicly available wordlists augmented with geospatial evidence, and show that the technique is successful for a number of languages. 1