The MaLex Project

The MaLex project is a cooperation between the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) at the University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies (ISK) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. The project is financed by NUFU. Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Al Mtenje, University of Malawi, is the coordinator in Malawi.

The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is an in-depth annotation of representative corpora of the languages of Malawi, starting with Chichewa.

The goals of TypeCraft within the MaLex project are:

• an in-depth linguistic annotation of representative text fragments from Chichewa, Chiawa and Chitumbuka.
• within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV/AIDS is of special importance.

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