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Indonesian is spoken by 200M people (45M of which as first language), I bet they could find some text for it. When joined with the Malaysian family, it brings t
by corbezzoli 3y ago
Indonesian is spoken by 200M people (45M of which as first language), I bet they could find some text for it. When joined with the Malaysian family, it brings the total speakers to 290M.
- bobthepanda 3y agoMy understanding is that the languages with better support have the advantage of official bodies that have section-by-section translations of all their documents; the EU into its 24 official languages and the UN with its six, for starters.
- tgv 3y agoBuilding corpora has been an ongoing research activity since the 1990s. Many countries lacked the academic programs and support to build them. Often, the material isn't even there. E.g., wikipedia is a great source, but many "national" wikis are rather empty. The Bahasa wiki has 1/10th of the articles of the English one. They also seem to be shorter. But also, Apple doesn't do much research. MS, however, has always had an active NLP research and support program, if only because of the importance of Word. But Apple depends on the research available from third parties.