In our community, we are able to bring distance learning to students who would otherwise not have access to language classes.
Another is the 2008 executive order requiring city agencies to implement language access for New Yorkers with limited English proficiency.
The roundtable served as a forum for community groups to present recommendations to address language access issues surrounding violence against immigrant women, as well as nail salon worker health and safety.
With language access posing a critical problem, beginning in 1999, we organized to win translation and interpretation in multiple levels of government and society so that immigrants can fully participate, stay healthy, and care for their children.
Throughout these conversations, common themes and issues emerged, specifically around barriers to language access, financial products to re-start small businesses, health care, delays with accessing BP claims, disaster preparedness and recovery, and technical assistance in applying for federal grants.
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As the Advocacy and Civic Engagement Coordinator, I travel the country and train ordinary Arab and Muslim Americans to conduct local campaigns in their communities on issues ranging from health care and language access, education reform, restoring funding for social services, and addressing heavy handed immigration enforcement.
As part of the conference, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs is releasing a series of blueprints that highlight policies and programs New York City has undertaken in areas like economic development, language access and policing in hopes they will offer useful strategies other cities can use for their own purposes.
The foundation would also like to see improved access to free English language lessons so migrant workers can improve their knowledge of their rights and ask for help, and easier access to legal redress and compensation.
Ms. Hirota is the CEO of Asian Health Services (AHS), a Federally Qualified Community Health Center in Oakland, California, that works with residents unable to access care due to language, cultural, and financial barriers.
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"If they don't have access to learning a sign language that's already in existence, then a community of deaf people will find a way to communicate, " said Leanne Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
Watson is designed to "understand" natural language requests and then access vast quantities of unstructured data to find the best answers to questions.
Unlike Sony who hides their protocols, the WACI NX has an open protocol which you can access from just about any web programming language.
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Archbishop Lanfranc school said that the teacher had had responsibility for organising some language exams and had limited access to exam papers kept locked in a secure place.
This summer I translated these activities so that all dual immersion programs in the district may have equal access to the materials in the target language of instruction.
Chalk it up to colonial ties, plus English-language facility that has permitted access to more labor markets, especially at higher income levels that can support bringing an extended family along.
Amazon built X-Ray using its expertise in language processing and machine learning, access to significant storage and computing resources with Amazon S3 and EC2, and a deep library of book and character information.
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Rosetta Stone TOTALe Online is a subscription service that offers unlimited Web and app access to all levels of lessons in a specific language.
It uses the Simple Object Access Protocol, a protocol for a common XML (Extensible Markup Language) messaging format for Internet applications.
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In the same year, a market-research company, Cultural Access, found that young Latinos watched twice as much English-language as Spanish-language television.
Archbishop Lanfranc school says the teacher had responsibility for organising some language exams taken by external candidates, so had limited access to exam papers kept locked in a secure place.
"We identified problems with access to interpreting services for people who do not speak English as their first language and for those who are deaf, " Ms Drown said.
The Google executive said online language translation was important because the company's philosophy was to provide access to "all the world's information".
As I previously wrote in Forbes, companies ranging from IBM to Google to Microsoft are racing to combine natural language processing with huge Big Data systems in the cloud that we can access from anywhere.
Viewers may be curious just to hear Al Jazeera America, which will have access to millions of U.S. homes now that the traditional Arabic-language network this week acquired Current TV, once owned by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and others.
The committee published its last report on the use of the Welsh language last month, which also looked at the challenges faced by consumers wanting to access public services in Welsh.
China's airwaves have been dominated by Chinese-language "Mandopop, " but tastes are evolving as the internet gives young people access to different types of music, says Nathaniel Davis, operations director of China-based music industry consultancy Splatter.
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