Collecting Language Resources from Public Administrations in the Nordic and Baltic Countries

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This paper presents Tilde’s work on collecting language resources from government institutions and other public administrations in the Nordic and Baltic countries. We introduce the activities and results of the European Language Resources Coordination (ELRC) action in this region, provide a synopsis of ELRC workshops held in all countries of the region, identify potential holders and donors of language data suitable for improving machine translation systems, and describe the language resources collected so far. We also describe several national projects and initiatives on sharing of language data accumulated in the public sector and creation of new language resources from this data. Opportunities and challenges in consolidating language data from the public sector are discussed, and related actions and regulatory initiatives are proposed.

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