Sentence examples for deficient language from inspiring English sources

Despite my deficient language skills, I was gripped every minute of the way.

Deficient language skills in the UK cost 3.5% of GDP, according to 2014 research by Cardiff Business School for UK Trade and Investment.

Deficient language skills and the assumption that "everyone speaks English" are costing the UK economy around £48bn a year, or 3.5% of GDP, according to research by Professor James foreman-Peck for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

Since Icelandic is a resource deficient language there is no large text data available for building a statistical LM, especially for spontaneous speech.

Therefore it is difficult to create a statistical LM for resource deficient languages.

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of WBW and SBS translation methods and show the amount of data for the resource-deficient language required to par these methods.

The WBW translation is especially important for resource-deficient languages that do not have SBS machine translation tools available.

The above mentioned systems all use statistical machine translation (MT) often expensive to obtain and unavailable for resource-deficient languages.

Development of speech recognizers for resource-deficient languages using spoken utterances in a different language has already been reported in [2], where phonemes are identified in several different languages and used to create or aid an acoustic model for the target language.

Since data, for the purpose of developing a speech recognition system, is sparse or nonexisting for resource-deficient languages, it may be possible to use data from the other resource-rich languages, especially when available target language sentences are limited which often occurs when developing prototype systems.

Our last prime minister was so deficient in language – and so distrusting of it – he actually memorably ran out of words on occasion (when interviewed by Mark Riley over saying "shit happens" about the death of an Australian soldier).