GiellaLT — a stable infrastructure for Nordic minority languages and beyond

Flammie Pirinen, Sjur Moshagen, Katri Hiovain-Asikainen


Abstract
Long term language technology infrastructures are critical for continued maintenance of language technology based software that is used to support the use of languages in digital world. In Nordic area we have languages ranging from well-resourced national majority languages like Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish as well as minoritised, unresourced and indigenous languages like Sámi languages. We present an infrastructure that has been build in over 20 years time that supports building language technology and tools for most of the Nordic languages as well as many of the languages all over the world, with focus on Sámi and other indigenous, minoritised and unresourced languages. We show that one common infrastructure can be used to build tools from keyboards and spell-checkers to machine translators, grammar checkers and text-to-speech as well as automatic speech recognition.
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2023.nodalida-1.63
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Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
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May
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2023
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Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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Tanel Alumäe, Mark Fishel
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NoDaLiDa
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University of Tartu Library
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643–649
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Flammie Pirinen, Sjur Moshagen, and Katri Hiovain-Asikainen. 2023. GiellaLT — a stable infrastructure for Nordic minority languages and beyond. In Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa), pages 643–649, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. University of Tartu Library.
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GiellaLT — a stable infrastructure for Nordic minority languages and beyond (Pirinen et al., NoDaLiDa 2023)
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