TY - BOOK ID - 78989242 TI - African languages in a digital age : challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing AU - Osborn, Donald Zhang. AU - International Development Research Centre (Canada) PY - 2010 SN - 9780796922496 9781552504734 1552504735 9780796923004 0796923000 9780796923011 0796923019 0796922497 128257812X 9786612578120 PB - Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, DB - UniCat KW - Computer. Automation KW - African languages KW - Computational linguistics KW - Automatic language processing KW - Language and languages KW - Language data processing KW - Linguistics KW - Natural language processing (Linguistics) KW - Applied linguistics KW - Cross-language information retrieval KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Multilingual computing KW - Data processing. KW - Data processing KW - African languages. KW - Computational linguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78989242 AB - With increasing numbers of computers and penetration of the Internet around the world, localization of the technology and the content it carries into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localization, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to t ER -