Toward Computational Processing of Less Resourced Languages: Primarily Experiments for Moroccan Amazigh Language

The world is undergoing a huge transformation from industrial economies into an informa‐ tion economy, in which the indices of value are shifting from material to non-material re‐ sources. This transformation has been rightly described as a revolution that is accompanied by considerable dangers for the future and the survival of many languages and their associ‐ ated cultures. The last years have seen a growing tendency in investigating applying lan‐ guage processing methods to other languages than English. However, most of tools and methods' development on language processing has so far concentrated on a fairly small and limited number of languages, mainly European and East-Asian languages.