%0 Conference Proceedings %T Guarani: A Case Study in Resource Development for Quick Ramp-Up MT %A Abdelali, Ahmed %A Cowie, James %A Helmreich, Steve %A Jin, Wanying %A Milagros, Maria Pilar %A Ogden, Bill %A Rad, Mansouri %A Zacharski, Ron %S Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers %D 2006 %8 aug 8 12 %I Association for Machine Translation in the Americas %C Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA %F abdelali-etal-2006-guarani %X In this paper we describe a set of processes for the acquisition of re\-sources for quick ramp\-up machine translation (MT) from any language lacking significant machine tracta\-ble resources into English, using the Paraguayan indigenous lan\-guage Guarani as well as Amharic and Chechen, as examples. Our task is to develop a 250,000 mono\-lingual corpus, a 250,000 bilingual parallel corpus, and smaller corpora tagged with part of speech, named entity, and morphological annota\-tions. %U https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.1 %P 1-9