The breadth of languages with which the Bible Societies must work is probably greater than any other organisation. The lack of linguistic databases for most of these languages has encouraged Bible Society to begin developing systems which can analyse automatically some characteristics of natural language. A particular need is the ability identify cognate word forms in a language with the minimum of supervision. The ability to identify close cognates improves the performance of key term analysers and automatic back-translation and once texts are complete contributes to creating concordances lemmata based search routines for these texts which are increasingly being made available on the web. This paper considers the problems created for such processing by complex, non-concatenative morphologies.

BFBS - Bible Society

The British & Foreign Bible Society began the movement that now links 145 national bible societies through United Bible Societies.
In addition to our work with and for UBS we also work closely with colleagues from SIL, Wycliffe, Pioneer, IBT, Lutheran BT, Seed Company and others.


Linguistic Computing at BFBS

Formerly known as BFBS Machine Assisted Translation (MAT), LC continues research into Computational Linguistics to develop computer systems which can help translators with their task.
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