GiellaLT Documentation

GiellaLT provides rule-based language technology aimed at minority and indigenous languages

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Language resource maturity classification

There is a need to clearly communicate the maturity of a language resource code base. For this four categories are used (+ unknown/undefined), as defined below:

  1. Production - colour: green
  2. Beta - colour: yellow
  3. Alpha - colour: red
  4. Experiment / student exercise - colour: black
  5. Undefined - colour: grey

These categories are used as labels in README files, on the documentation front page for each resource, as well as in the registry. The labels should look as follows:

Maturity class definitions (in reverse order)

The criterias for the various levels (some of these criterias do not apply to keyboards, for obvious reasons) are:

Undefined Maturity: Undefined

Used when the maturity is not definable, or has not yet been defined/tagged.

Experiment Maturity: Production

This category also covers student exercises (published with permission). The point of such exercises is not to make a working system, but to explore the possibilities for language technology. Such work can of course be extended and in the end result in a fully working, production tool.

Alpha Maturity: Production

Beta Maturity: Production

Production Maturity: Production

Registering maturity

Maturity badges in README’s, documentation and the registry are presently maintained manually. But the maturity level is also used to group languages automatically in the keyboard and language resource lists, in which case it is taken automatically from a correesponding topic tag in the github repo. Over time, all instances of maturity badges should be generated from these topic tags.

Adding maturity topic tags

Adding maturity tags is done via GitHub topics, and can only be done by repo or organisation owners or admins. The topic tags corresponding to the labels above are as follows:

The Maturity: Undefined category is of course unlabeled - that is the definition of the category. It should ideally be empty.