Native American Terminology Development

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Indigenous Language Institute Conference Series

October 11–12, 2010

Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (formerly Isleta Casino & Resort), Albuquerque, NM

Our two-day conference will convene community language experts, linguists, translators, tribal policy makers, and IT terminologists with the goal of sharing information and experience in terminology development and management and introducing conference participants to important skills, existing tools and concepts for technology and techniques for developing useful and comprehensible terminology for their languages.

The presentations will address the following topics:

1. Developing New Terminology: project organization and logistics, lexicon creation, database management, dialect variation and standardization of terminology
2. Native Language in Information Technology: software internationalization, locale support, community- business relationship and communications integrating existing tribal infrastructure systems
3. Community Adaptation of Technology: Tools to support a language immersion environment: bilingual and immersion classrooms, tribal government, localized software, social networking spaces, private business, local and global adaptation and usage of new terminology

Please see our Conference Brochure for more details on the conference and to print out a registration form. You may also Register on-line.