Google teams up with MIT to boost education in Haitian Kreyòl

In recent years, MIT scholars have helped develop a whole lexicon of science and math terms for use in Haiti's Kreyòl language. Now a collaboration with Google is making those terms readily available to anyone -- an important step in the expansion of Haitian Kreyòl for education purposes.

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The new project, centered around the MIT-Haiti Initiative, has been launched as part of an enhancement to the Google Translate program. Now anyone using Google Translate can find an extensive set of Kreyòl terms, including recent coinages, in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines.

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