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The MaLex project is a cooperation between the Centre for Language Studies at the University of Malawi and the Institute for Languages and Communication Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway. The project is financed by NUFU Prof. Lars Hellan is the nordic coordinator and Prof. Al Mtenje is the coordinator in Malawi.
The "LEX" in Malex stands for "lexicon" and lexica will be among the concrete results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is in-depth annotation of a representative corpus, starting with Chichewa. Here a list of goals:
- make the process of lexicon creation efficient and
- make the final result reusable in new projects without having to put in the same amount of manual effort as the first product required.