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+====== Linda Wiechetek, Francis M. Tyers, and Thomas Omma: Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair ======
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-  * CONs
+===== Topic =====
-  * Questions
+Adding a lexical selection module to a ruled based MT system for translation from North Sami to Lule Sami.
+===== Pluses =====
+  * All the resources and source codes are downloadable.
+  * Grammar rules of the minority languages (which can be dying out) are formalised and thus preserved.
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+> Many real-world examples from discussed languages make the understanding of the paper easier. -MK-
+===== Minuses =====
+  * The approach needs a lot of human work.
+  * The evaluation is unclear and subjective. Sentence pairs which the authors considered unequivalent were removed from the data. There is no baseline approach to compare with.
+===== Questions ====
+  - Where does the semantic information come from? Is it from manual annotation?
+  - Assimilation vs. dissemination. Does it make a difference when we design an MT system? \\ In a statistical system probably not. In a rule based system, there may be an effort to make the errors predictable and the output easily post-editable when our aim is dissemination.
+  - What is the difference between a minority language and an underresourced language? \\ We guess that a minority language is a language with a small number of users. There are underresourced languages which can be considered major, like Indonesian.
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+> Assimilation & dissemination criteria can be used for evaluating the performance of the resulting system. -MK-

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