Michael:
This Tuesday I'll be discussing work that tackles the challenges of applying practical language technologies to endangered/resource-scarce languages. Since Daniel covered speech technology, I'll be focusing on machine translation and the many underlying technologies necessary and helpful for system building. Here are the papers for this week:

Building NLP Systems for Two Resource-Scarce Indigenous Languages: Mapudungun and Quechua
Christian Monson, Ariadna Font Llitjós, Roberto Aranovich, Lori Levin, Ralf Brown, Erik Peterson, Jaime Carbonell, and Alon Lavie
http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/~monsonc/Documents-like-pdfs-etc/Papers/LREC-06/Monson.et.al-BuildingNLPSystemsForTwoResourceScarceIndigenousLanguagesMapudungunAndQuechua-LREC-06.pdf

Low Density Language Bootstrapping: The Case of Tajiki Persian
Karine Megerdoomian and Dan Parvaz
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/827_paper.pdf

Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana
Hendrik J. Groenewald
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-0705.pdf

Proactive Learning for Building Machine Translation Systems for Minority Languages
Vamshi Ambati and Jaime Carbonell
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-1908.pdf