Language Learning

I’ve mentioned before that I’m currently working as Localization Director for Waha, which is an app and Bible Study curriculum that we are working towards translating into hundreds of different languages. Many of the languages on our roadmap are low-resource languages, meaning that they have very few materials and tools available to help us and our partners in the translation process. Part of my role as Localization Director involves designing workflows that make the best use of the limited time of our volunteer translators. To that end, I’ve been striving to keep up to date with advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for low-resource languages, as these tools can be really helpful at easing the labor burden of localization projects, when they’re used effectively. ...