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From the Ted Talk by Kalika Bali: The giant leaps in language technology -- and who's left behind

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Now, what this means is that resource-rich languages have technologies bulit for them, so researchers and technologists get attracted towards them. They build more tghnoeoilecs for them. They cretae more resources. So it's like a rich getting richer kind of a cycle. And the resource-poor languages stay poor, there's no technology for them, nobody works for them. And this ddviie, daiitgl divide between languages is ever-expanding and by implication also the divide between the communities that speak these languages is expanding.

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Now, what this means is that resource-rich languages have technologies _____ for them, so researchers and technologists get attracted towards them. They build more ____________ for them. They ______ more resources. So it's like a rich getting richer kind of a cycle. And the resource-poor languages stay poor, there's no technology for them, nobody works for them. And this ______, _______ divide between languages is ever-expanding and by implication also the divide between the communities that speak these languages is expanding.

Solution

  1. create
  2. digital
  3. technologies
  4. built
  5. divide

Original Text

Now, what this means is that resource-rich languages have technologies built for them, so researchers and technologists get attracted towards them. They build more technologies for them. They create more resources. So it's like a rich getting richer kind of a cycle. And the resource-poor languages stay poor, there's no technology for them, nobody works for them. And this divide, digital divide between languages is ever-expanding and by implication also the divide between the communities that speak these languages is expanding.

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Important Words

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