An Foclóir Nua

Dónaill, Niall Ó; Bhaldraithe, Tomás de

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“…6 Night after night, in na Gaeltachtaí (the Irish-speaking regions of Ireland), he spun the hero tales of Ulster, 7 along with those contained in An Fhiannaíocht, the Fianna cycle of Irish literature. 8 The latter concerned the legendary seer Fionn Mac Cumhaill (Finn Mac Cool) and his mythical troupe of warriors, the Fianna. 9 Fionn Mac Cumhaill was known as an all-around hero and an extraordinary competitor in a wide variety of challenging sports; on the lips of the storyteller, however, he could be portrayed also as a shape-shifter who morphed into giant, trickster, engineer, and even buffoon.…”

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The Irish rent … and mended: transitional textual communities in nineteenth-century America

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2015

Irish Studies Review

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In this paper, traditional folkloric forms that were ritualised and practised in preFamine Ireland are examined. So, too, are the strategies that storytellers employed in disseminating the imaginative aspects of the oral tradition to their audiences. Following the disruption of the storytelling tradition precipitated by the Great Famine and emigration, the fabric of Irish storytelling lay threadbare, both in Ireland and abroad. Of interest is the fact that in America the less "heroic" and more subtle strands of Irish folklore resurfaced in the theatrical venues that developed during the second half of the nineteenth century, namely, minstrelsy, Vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley. By the turn of twentieth century, the Irish were responding to other "heroic" depictions of themselves, not only with protestation but also with "tongue-in-cheek" laughter. Their grounding in a variety of folkloric texts in Ireland enabled them to transition to multiple kinds of accommodation and expressive resistance.

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The Irish rent … and mended: transitional textual communities in nineteenth-century America

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Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from One Less-Resourced Language to Another

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Donnchadha

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Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

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It is difficult to develop and deploy Language Technology and applications for minority languages for many reasons. These include the lack of Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources for the language, a scarcity of NLP researchers who speak the language and the communication gap between teachers in the classroom and researchers working in universities and other centres of research. One approach to overcoming these obstacles is for researchers interested in Less-Resourced Languages (LRLs) to work together in reusing and adapting existing resources where possible. This article outlines how a multiple-choice quiz generator for Basque was adapted for Irish. The Quizzes on Tap (QOT) system uses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to automatically generate multiple choice test items. Adapting the Basque application to work for Irish involved the sourcing of suitable Irish corpora and a morphological engine for Irish, as well as the compilation of a development set. Various integration issues arising from differences between Basque and Irish needed to be dealt with. The QOT system provides a useful resource that enables Irish teachers to produce both domain-specific and generalknowledge quizzes in a timely manner, for children with varying levels of exposure to the language.

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Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from One Less-Resourced Language to Another

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Donnchadha

Foster

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Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics

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An Foclóir Nua

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The Irish rent … and mended: transitional textual communities in nineteenth-century America

The Irish rent … and mended: transitional textual communities in nineteenth-century America

Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from One Less-Resourced Language to Another

Quizzes on Tap: Exporting a Test Generation System from One Less-Resourced Language to Another

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