Computing in the region presents fascinating problems. For example, the
central SEA languages Thai/Lao, Burmese, and Khmer are of different families,
and have related, but mutually unintelligible writing systems. But challenges
they pose for software development are essentialy identical -- the myriad
complications that arise from very long alphabets, written without spaces
between words, on many vertical levels, and read in context-dependent order.
Open questions involve text segmentation, optical character recognition,
information retrieval, text-to-speech, transcription systems, parallel text
alignment, translation assistants, phonetic lookup, and so on. These find
immediate application in lexicography, etymology, phonology, and all corpus-
based linguistics research.
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