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Machine translation with North Saami as a pivot language

Lene Antonsen
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Ciprian Gerstenberger
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Maja Kappfjell
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Sandra Nystø Rahka
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Marja-Liisa Olthuis
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Trond Trosterud
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Francis M. Tyers
Department of Language and Culture, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, 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 131:15, p. 123-131

NEALT Proceedings Series 29:15, p. 123-131

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Published: 2017-05-08

ISBN: 978-91-7685-601-7

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Translating from a majority language into several minority languages implies duplicating both translation and terminology work. Our assumption is that a manual translation into one of the languages, and machine translation from this one into the other ones, will both cut translation time and be beneficial for work on terminology. We test the functionality of North Saami as a pivot language, with subsequent machine translation into South, Lule and Inari Saami.

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