How inclusive are NLP technologies for African minority langages ? A case study of Ewondo-French pair development in Apertium

NLP need data which do not exist for minority languages. A Rule-Based Machine Translation system may help to develop parallel corpora in a first step. The Ewondo-French translation pair in Apertium required a conversion tool between two competing orthographies. The study highlights the need of dialogue between NLP consorsia and minority languages community