IMUG - The International Multilingual User Group

1 ≠ One: Turning Numbers into Words with CLDR and ICU

November 15, 2012 · 7:00 PM
Adobe HQ - San Jose

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Turning a numerical value into text using the digits 0 through 9 is a common formatting process for a computer to do. Turning a numerical value into written or spoken words, like zero through nine, is much more complex. A summary of numerical contexts to consider when using these resources will also be covered.

This presentation will cover the resources available in CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) and ICU (International Components for Unicode) in order to turn numbers into words. A summary of numerical contexts to consider when using these resources also be covered.

George Rhoten is a Language Technologies Developer at Apple. He graduated from Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Theater. After college, George joined IBM.

During his 11½ year career at IBM, he worked on International Components for Unicode (ICU), Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), Information Archive (IA) and Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS). He has contributed to the CLDR project since its early days and has many years of expertise in software internationalization and software localization.

George joined Apple in January of 2012. He currently works on various linguistic technologies at Apple, which primarily includes Siri.

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IMUG

The Unicode CLDR Survey Tool, presented by George Rhoten in his IMUG talk, is now open for data submission: http://ow.ly/kBNPK

0 · May 1
IMUG

The CLDR numbers survey tool is now available on Unicode.org! George just sent us the link: http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps...

0 · January 21
tex

George described the amazing diversity of grammatical rules and base terms needed to generate names of numbers in different languages and how they are represented in CLDR. It was an engaging and thought provoking presentation. The task itself looks daunting. Kudos to George for undertaking it.

0 · November 16
Ray Lin

Informative.... :)

0 · November 15