Last week I was the curator of the @AotearoaPeople Twitter account. I covered a lot of areas of interest to me. The tweet stream follows. I hope you enjoy it! Jump to: Monday: Intro, my whanau, and our charitable trust Tuesday: Lexicography and words Wednesday: Tech, startups, and investment Thursday: The future of government Friday:…
Continue reading →One of my “day jobs” is providing lexicographical software development for a number of dictionaries around the place. One project using my Freelex software that’s recently been launched is the Legal Māori Resource Hub, by Māmari Stephens at the Victoria University Law department. Māmari recently gave a talk about the lexicon, corpus, and resource hub…
Continue reading →The Online Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) went live today at http://nzsl.vuw.ac.nz/ This online dictionary is the culmination of over twenty years of work, and I’m proud to say that I’ve been involved since the beginning. The dictionary is an extensive resource for people who use or want to learn NZSL. Videos accompany…
Continue reading →Some things just take time – especially recognition. My Free and Open Source Freelex / Mātāpuna Dictionary Writing System was just reviewed by Oumar Bah in Language Documentation and Conservation. (Download the PDF of the article). Bah writes: It is a DWS much like Toolbox, iLex or TshwaneLex, but uninke the others, it is entirely…
Continue reading →Te Reo Pūtaiao: A Māori Language Dictionary of Science came out earlier this month. It was compiled using the Freelex / Mātāpuna open source dictionary writing system that I wrote. Te Reo Pūtaiao is an encyclopedic dictionary; nearly all of the info is in Te Reo Māori, and each entry contains an equivalent English gloss…
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