Digital corpora and other electronic resources for Maltese

Abstract

This paper describes the development and current status of digital corpora and other NLP resources for Maltese. After an introduction which briefly examines the linguistic situation and the history of corpus development for Maltese, the paper will focus on the efforts of two teams of researchers to create a digital corpus and set of related tools for contemporary and historical Maltese. These efforts, while largely independent at the outset, are in the process of being aligned.