Ryan Johnson
UiT Norgga Árktalaš universitehta, Giela ja kultuvrra instituhtta, Romssa, Norway
Tommi A Pirinen
Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora, Germany
Tiina Puolakainen
Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
Francis Tyers
UiT Norgga Árktalaš universitehta, Giela ja kultuvrra instituhtta, Romssa, Norway
Trond Trosterud
UiT Norgga Árktalaš universitehta, Giela ja kultuvrra instituhtta, Romssa, Norway
Kevin Unhammer
UiT Norgga Árktalaš universitehta, Giela ja kultuvrra instituhtta, Romssa, Norway
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Published in: Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa, 22-24 May 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 131:14, p. 115-122
NEALT Proceedings Series 29:14, p. 115-122
Published: 2017-05-08
ISBN: 978-91-7685-601-7
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
This paper presents a machine translation system between Finnish and North Sámi, two Uralic languages. In this paper we concentrate on the translation direction to Finnish. As a background, the differences between the two languages is presented, followed by how the system was designed to handle some of these differences. We then provide an evaluation of the system’s performance and directions for future work.
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