Technical committees
Rationale
Technical committees are divided by function, not dialect or language.
Technical Management Board
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Management of technical committees
Technical Committee: Transcription, transliteration and Romanization systems
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Romanization systems (Jyutping, etc.), systems for names
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Transcription systems (e.g. Cantonese transcription in Han characters)
Technical Committee: Writing systems
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Punctuation
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Segmentation of words and word writing conventions
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Pedagogical grammar standardization
Technical Committee: Characters and words
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Variant forms of characters (異體字)
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Variant forms of words (異體詞)
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Dialectal characters (方言字)
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Character sets (e.g. HKCLS 和諧體)
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Strokes, components and shapes, order
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Dictionaries, thesauri, and corpuses
Technical Committee: Pronunciation
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Readings of characters
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Readings of words
Technical Committee: Terminology
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Terminology in all fields (per language)
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Every field has a Workgroup, e.g. IT terminology workgroup, medical terminology workgroup.
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Online multi-lingual concept/terminology database (e.g. https://www.geolexica.com)
Technical Committee: Technology
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Human computer interfaces
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Intelligent input methods (e.g. white spaces between words)
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Computer representation of Sinitic transcription/transliteration systems
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Ontologies
Technical Committee: Education
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Language proficiency tests
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Styles of academic formats in Chinese (e.g. MLA and APA in English)
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Citation formats
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Templates of various business and governmental communication (letters, etc.)
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Letters
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Notices/circulars
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Standard vocabulary and grammar for education levels
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“Simple Chinese” (incl. for addressing a Cantonese audience)
Technical Committee: Cultural
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Surveillance of character sets, word sets, language patterns in various Chinese communities
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Translation of seminal documents:
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the Girona Manifesto (https://pen-international.org/who-we-are/manifestos/the-girona-manifesto-on-linguistic-rights/read-the-girona-manifesto)
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the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (https://culturalrights.net/descargas/drets_culturals389.pdf)
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Technical Committee: Legal
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Examination of legal language usage in light of practices in other countries
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(e.g. 中華人民共和國國家通用語言文字法)
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