Open-domain Interaction and Online Content in the Sami Language

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)

Abstract

This paper presents data collection and collaborative community events organised within the project Digital Natives on the North Sami language. The project is one of the collaboration initiatives on endangered Finno-Ugric languages, supported by the larger framework between the Academy of Finland and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The goal of the project is to improve digital visibility and viability of the targeted Finno-Ugric languages, as well as to develop language technology tools and resources in order to assist automatic language processing and experimenting with multilingual interactive applications.