Translate.org.za is a non-profit organization producing free and open source software to empower South Africans. The Translate Project started in 2001 with the aim to provide free software translated into the 11 official languages of South Africa.

The African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-I) was set up to facilitate the development of the necessary resources that would enable the engagement of information communication technologies (ICT) in African Languages. The overall aim is to appropriate various aspects of human language technology (HLT)in African languages for the unfolding information society.

Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long time ago and now the non-printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. On this site you can find the ASCII character table which includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing characters. The site also offers scan and HTML codes, Univode tables, etc.

The Association for Computational Linguistics is an international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation.

Plate-forme d'édition en logiciel libre pour le berbère.

Bisharat! is an evolving idea based on the importance of maternal languages in sustainable development and the enormous potential of ICTs to benefit efforts in the area of language and development. Anticipating the gradual introduction of computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content.

The Centre for Language Technology is a Danish Government Research Institute created under the Ministry for Information Technology and Research. Its mission is to carry out and promote strategic research and commercial development in the areas of language technology and computational linguistics in Denmark.

The Eritrea Technical This website provides Free Standard Compliant Ge'ez Software developed by Eritrea Technical Exchange Project of the International Collaborative for Science Education and the Environment (ETEP/ICSEE) in order to enhance the basic multi-lingual Ge`ez (g'Iz) and Arabic computer facilities and infrastructure in Eritrea.

ECoSA was created in 1997 with the aim to help both the Ethiopian government and industry to establish standards for Ethiopian computer systems: to elaborate the character set and encoding definitions, to adopt the Unicode character set to Ethiopian language, etc.

EUROMAP is a path to market for speech and language technologies. It provides awareness, bridge-building and market-enabling services to boost opportunities for market take-up of the results of European and national HLT research and development activities. The key focus is on accelerating the rate of HLT transfer from the research base to the market by creating communities of interest between the critical players in the development and value chain.

ELRA was established as a non-profit organization in Luxembourg in 1995. ELRA is the driving force to make available the language resources for language engineering and to evaluate language engineering technologies.

GeezWord is a Windows software for Amharic, Tigrinia, and other languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Uses Ge?ez script.

Founded in 1975, GLDV is a scientific association for research, teaching and professional work in natural language processing.

HLTCentral is a Gateway to Speech & Language Technology Opportunities on the Web. HLTCentral web site was established as an online information resource of human language technologies and related topics of interest to the HLT community at large. It covers news, R&D, technological and business developments in the field of speech, language, multilinguality, automatic translation, localisation and related areas. Its coverage of HLT news and developments is worldwide - with a unique European perspective.

This page, maintained by WebReference.com, covers the main approaches to the problem of overcoming the Western bias in the language.

ISIS is a free and easy-to-use system for computation using Indian scripts, developed by Gautam Sengupta of the School of Linguistics and Language Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. ISIS runs on any Windows 2000/XP system with practically no additional components required.

The KhmerOS project is entitled to develop databases and applications directly in Khmer, with easy, standard ways to handle names and data. The KhmerOS initiative is being coordinated by the Open Forum of Cambodia. The aims of this project are: - reduction of the digital divide; - adequating computer software to the economy of Cambodia; - clarification and standardization of the correct use of the Khmer language.

Very useful resource for identifying special characters (along with their standardized names and codes) for many languages, including several African ones.

Lingaware is a company specializing in computer linguistics, with particular skills in advanced multilingual technologies.

En 2004, moins de 1 % des 6800 langues du monde bénéficie d'un niveau d'informatisation élevé, incluant un éventail large de services allant du traitement de textes à la traduction automatique. Cette thèse, qui s'intéresse aux autres langues - les langues-pi - s'attache à proposer des solutions pour remédier à leur sous-développement informatique.

The Multilingual Internet Names Consortium is a non-profit, non-governmental, international organization. It focuses on developing and promoting a truly multilingual Internet domain names and keywords, internationalization of Internet names standards and protocols, technical coordination and liaison with other international bodies.

USC/ISI is an academic research Institute that is part of the University of Southern California School of Engineering. The natural language group at ISI covers speech recognition and dialogue research, as well as most major areas of Human Language Technology. Research at USC/ISI includes both statistical and knowledge-based/symbolic methods, and most frequently a combination of the two. Translating text from one language to another is one of the original challenges of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence.

Project Helen is a two year research project undertaken by the University of Bradford, University of Crete, King's College and London Library. The project investigates a number of issues related to conversion between the Latin and Greek alphabets and the representation of the Greek character set with an emphasis on conversion of bibliographic data. Its aim is to make information in Greek language widely available throughout the European Community.

The UNDL Foundation is a non-for-profit international organization incorporated under the Swiss Civil Law. Its mission is two-fold: to continue the research and development initiated by the United Nations University (UNU)/Institute of Advanced Studies in Information Technologies, in particular in the field of the inter-lingual communication - an initiative known as Universal Networking Language (UNL) and its applications in all areas of human knowledge and activities; and to deploy the UNL facilities to assist all peoples in bridging the digital and cultural divide, in accordance with the principles and objectives of the United Nations and its Members States.

Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards.