SANDY CHUNG VISITS SAIPAN AND TINIAN ISLANDS
Sandy Chung is back from a two-week trip to the Northern Mariana Islands to work on the NSF-funded Chamorro dictionary revision project. One highlight of her trip was the opportunity to demonstrate the parser developed by Boris Harizanov to the Dictionary working groups on the islands of Tinian and Saipan. Boris’s parser enables users to locate Chamorro words in the revised Dictionary without knowing exactly how to spell them – a boon for a language with two official orthographies and a long history of non-standard spelling systems. Boris skyped in to the Saipan meeting of the dictionary working group to answer questions, and was a great hit.