Rights and License
The work presented in these pages is the result of several years of research as a research officer at the Institute of Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The source code and the applications that you will find hereinafter are copyrighted to NRC and released under the
BSD 3-Clause license.
Benoît Farley
Mission: To facilitate the use of Inuktitut
in its written
form on computers and the web by providing useful tools and links to
important resources.
Morning at Iqaluit, Nunavut
Photo: Joel Martin
Inuktitut Morphological Analyser
A common problem for a student of Inuktitut is that words grow to
gigantic proportions, often counting over five or six infixes, and need
to be broken into units of meaning in
order to be understood. This may represent a particular challenge to
newcomers to the language, more so when one considers the phonological
transformations as those infixes are added up. In order to
provide support for students and as a basis for more complex tools such
as spelling correctors and better search tools that are taken for
granted in other languages, we have developed a tool that splits these
long words into morphemes (a morphological analyser).
The focus is on the dialects of Eastern Canadian
Inuktitut. We are still adding to our linguistic database,
but the tool already provides an almost complete set of the "roots" and
"infixes" of the language, taking full account for their various forms.
This link leads to applications that
use the inuktitut morphological analyzer and the data base. There is an
application that returns de decomposition of a word highlighted by the
user in a web page. There is also applications that return linguistic
information on the roots and the infixes contained in the data base.
Read more about
Transcoder
With this application, one can get Inuktitut text rewritten from some
original format (Unicode, Nunacom, ProSyl, roman alphabet, etc.) to
another format.
Run
Read
more about
Web Page Transliteration
An application that
produces an exact copy of an Inuktitut web page
with the Inuktitut syllabic text transliterated to the roman alphabet.
Read more about
Display and Input of Inuktitut Syllabic Characters
This page gives access to Unicode and Legacy fonts for displaying Inuktitut
syllabic characters, and to keyboard drivers that must be used in order
to type those characters at the keyboard.
Read more about
On-line Documents
Inuktitut Linguistics for Technocrats
Mick Mallon has
graciously given us permission to put a copy of this
document that provides a brief introduction to the phonology and
morphophonology of Inuktitut. This document is written in a style that
allows
qallunaat seeking an understanding of how
the language
is put together to absorb the basics of word formation, an essential
part of the Inuktitut language.
Consult
Alex Spalding's "Inuktitut - A Multi-dialectal Outline Dictionary (with an
Aivilingmiutaq base)"
Consult
Inuktitut-English Parallel Corpus
With the gracious co-operation of the
Legislative Assembly of
Nunavut
we have assembled an aligned parallel corpus, where the Inuktitut text
and its English translation is put in parallel, at or near the
sentence level. We are in the process of
producing an updated version of the Hansard Parallel Corpus but, for
now, we will ensure that the versions produced in 2003 are available.
Read more about
Searching the Nunavut Hansard
As a demonstration of how the Inuktitut-English parallel corpus can be
used as the basis of a useful application for a student or speaker of Inuktitut, we provide a means
for searching. At the present time you can search on individual words
or parts of words in the Inuktitut or English text and will be shown the complete
sentence from the Inuktitut text together with the English sentence aligned to
it.
Run
Rights and License
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Source code distributed under the BSD 3-Clause license
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The original contents of this site was developed by Benoît Farley at the National Research Council of Canada.
