ERIC Number: EJ937348
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Publication Date: 2009
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Iceland's Language Technology: Policy versus Practice
Hilmarsson-Dunn, Amanda M.; Kristinsson, Ari P.
Current Issues in Language Planning, v10 n4 p361-376 2009
Iceland's language policies are purist and protectionist, aiming to maintain the grammatical system and basic vocabulary of Icelandic as it has been for a thousand years and to keep the language free of foreign (English) borrowings. In order to use Icelandic in the domain of information technology, there has been a major investment in language technology. However, this is expensive and time-consuming, and some feel that, with a population conversant in English, the effort to constantly adapt and translate new technologies from English is not worthwhile. This paper aims to examine Iceland's policies for IT and to investigate whether they can be maintained in practice. (Contains 1 figure and 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Basic Vocabulary, Information Technology, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Grammar, English (Second Language), Translation
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iceland
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