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SUMMARY:Mandarin Dasher - Alan Lawrence (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Emli-Mari Nel
DESCRIPTION:Dasher's normal model of an alphabet does not adapt straightfo
 rwardly to Mandarin: The alphabet is many times larger than for European l
 anguages\, and unordered. MandarinDasher tackles this problem by the use o
 f a separate phonetic alphabet\, but this is many-to-many with the symbols
  of the Chinese alphabet. I'll try to explain\n(a) the background\, and th
 e solution developed by Will Zhou\, with some more recent improvements\;\n
 (b) the resulting framework for defining languages\; in particular I'd be 
 interested to hear suggestions for further applications.\n\n(Some of this 
 material has been previously presented by Will Zhou.)\n\n***RESCHEDULED FR
 OM 4TH APRIL***
LOCATION:TCM Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Physics
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