COMMUNITY TRANSLATION IN AFRICA - W3
COMMUNITY TRANSLATION
IN AFRICA
DENIS GIKUNDA, LOCALIZATION PRG MANAGER
w3c: The Multilingual Web: Where are we?
Google in Africa
Local language content
Tools
Methodology (x 3)
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GOOGLE IN AFRICA
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WHAT, WHO, WHERE
? Making
the internet an integral
part of every-day life in Africa
? Access, Relevance, Sustainability
? Product
Development,
Engineering, Localization,
Business Development,
Marketing, PR, Sales*.
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+San-francisco, Zurich, London, New York,
Dublin, Tel Aviv, Haifa
AFRICAN LANGUAGES
landscape
Policy
Status
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?
?
?
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Highest language density in world [2k+ languages]
?
English/French/Portuguese predominantly used as official or language of
instruction in education
?
Exceptions are Amharic (ET), Swahili (TZ), Setswana (BW), and 11 South
African local languages.
?
Large policy formulation gaps wrt language/education/ict, hence low demand
for local language services. Potential partners are UNESCO, ANLOC, IDRC
?
African languages have remained a largely oral, informal phenomena. Very few
books, newspapers, publications have been developed due to cost.
?
Oral literature, indigenous knowledge, cultural novelty, and creativity remain
unamplified, and lost over generations.
?
Internet presents a opportunity to bootstrap written form of african languages.
Over 100 languages with over 1M+ speakers
12 - 15 macro languages reach ~60% of indigenous language speakers
Most use latin script, extended diacritics, with exception of Amharic (ET).
Native speakers online (M)
Wikipedia articles (K)
600
450
300
150
0
am
sw
ar
ru
zh
en
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4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Negligible african language content relative to
speakers online
Stunted organic growth of content relative to user
growth
Some efforts show promise of impact
New articles per day
Amharic
Swahili
Arabic
Chinese
Russian
English
New articles
per day
Internet user
growth
2000-2009
2000-2010
am
2
2810%
13%
22%
sw
29
247.8%
42%
106%
ar
61
1545%
165%
143%
2008
ru
529
1125.8%
239%
220%
2009
zh
185
894.8%
246%
213%
2010
en
1351
226.7%
124%
110%
all langs
8457
342.2%
226%
202%
2006
2007
0
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750
1,500
2,250
3,000
USER GENERATED CONTENT
Google confidential & proprietary
? Users
first generate
content, or content that
draws in users?
Google Translate
(MT)
Afrikaans & Swahili
Google Translator
Toolkit
Community
Translation
Program
Voice Search
Google
in
Your
Language
Google Translate
(MT)
2001
2005
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2007
2009
2009
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