Kevin Scannell

Kevin Scannell

Software developer and researcher focusing on technology for under-resourced languages

Software

Gaelspell

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Irish spell checker, under development for more than 20 years

An Gramadóir

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A rule-based grammar checking engine, with a robust implementation for Irish (Gaeilge)

An Crúbadán

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Scripts and data for the Crúbadán web crawler

Gaelg

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NLP resources for Manx Gaelic, mainly in support of the gv2ga MT engine

Gàidhlig spell checker

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Files for building Scottish Gaelic spell checkers based on Michael Bauer’s lexical data

Chichewa NLP

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NLP resources for Chichewa

Aimsigh.com

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Source for the now-defunct aimsigh.com Irish search engine

Lingala NLP

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NLP resources for Lingala

Accentuate.us

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Source code for unicodification of many languages

OCR for seanchló fonts

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Data and scripts to train Tesseract OCR model for old Irish fonts (seanchló)

Indigenous Tweets

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A site that crawls Twitter and displays everyone tweeting in an Indigenous or minority language

Scrabble3D

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Irish version of an online, customizable, cross-platform Scrabble game

Indigenous Blogs

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Directory of all blogs in Indigenous or minority languages, with per-language RSS feeds

Orthotree

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Linguistic family tree based on orthographic distance

Adaptxt

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Predictive text packages for Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx Gaelic on Android phones

Cré na Cille on Twitter

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A version of the landmark Irish novel, played out by 23 “Twitter bots” tweeting at each other over three weeks

Tweet2learn

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An app to make it easier to use your native language on Twitter

Rogha Gabriel

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Twitter bot that tweets an Irish language haiku every day

Firefox OS keyboards

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Predictive text keyboards for Mozilla’s ill-fated foray into the mobile space

Fréamh an Eolais

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A hyperlinked version of Prof. Matt Hussey’s Irish language encyclopedia of science and technology

Webfeud

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Irish language version of a web-based word game

Intergaelic (Gàidhlig)

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Translation engine for Scottish Gaelic-to-Irish machine translation

Wordumz Gaeilge

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Irish version of a tetris-like word game

Irish e-poetry

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Code for Irish IPA transcription and for generating poetry

Cuisle

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Digital archive of an Irish language magazine originally published in 1999-2000

Intergaelic (Gaelg)

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Translation engine for Manx Gaelic-to-Irish machine translation

Skeealaght

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Annotated electronic edition of Manx folklore with Irish translations

Chuala.me

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Now-defunct site that displayed the top-100 trending Irish language stories based on social media analysis

Hapax Gaeilge

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Twitter bot that tweets when a word is used for the first time on Tuairisc.ie

Droichead eDIL

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Links between Ó Dónaill’s dictionary and DIL

Gaelscéal

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Online archive of every edition of the weekly Irish newspaper published between 2010 and 2013.

Foras Feasa ar Éirinn

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Modern edition of this important 17th c. Irish text, standardized with An Caighdeánaitheoir

Róbat an Tuisil Ghinidigh

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Twitter bot that tweets out random samples of a tricky grammatical construction in Irish for the benefit of learners

Gaelicize Me!

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Translates names into their Gaelic equivalents

Ogham++

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Ogham++ is a Turing-complete language optimized for reliable long-term storage of source code

Aistriú Litríochta

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Searchable database of every published translation into or out of Irish

Cíor Thuathail

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Inspired by the NYT spelling bee game

Grammatach

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Code for syntactic analysis of the Goidelic languages