From Non-segmenting Language Processing to Web Language Engineering
Virach Sornlertlamvanich · 2005
It is interesting to look at the statistics of the online languages reported by the Global Reach (www.globalreacg.biz). In September 2004, it was reported that the top six online language populations were English 35.2%, Chinese 13.7%, Spanish 9.0%, Japanese 8.4%, German 6.9%, and French 4.2 % while the web contents were English 68.4%, Japanese 5.9%, German 5.8%, Chinese 3.9%, French 3.0 %,and Spanish 2.4%. There are some changes in ranking between the online language populations and the existing of the web contents. However, English is still the majority language used in the online community. Many efforts have been making to prevent the fall-off in using of other languages, especially the less computerized languages. It is said that there are about 7,000 languages using in all over the world. At the same time the less computerized languages are disappearing. The Rosetta Project