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Indigenous language technology for modern society<\/h2>\n

<\/p>\n

No language is too hard for language technology. The S\u00e1mi languages have a complex grammatical structure and do not have access to huge text collections. This situation is shared among most Indigenous languages. Still, Divvun and Giellatekno \u2013 two research groups for S\u00e1mi language technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Troms\u00f8, Norway \u2013 have built all the tools below for most of the S\u00e1mi languages.
\n\u2022 Computer and mobile phone keyboards
\n\u2022 Dictionaries with grammars
\n\u2022 Spelling and grammar checking tools
\n\u2022 Language learning tools
\n\u2022 Machine translation<\/p>\n

Computer tools like these mainly exist for a few handfuls of majority languages today. Most of the world\u2019s 7,000 languages are without access to such tools. This digital divide threatens the existence of many languages; languages without these tools will be digitally non-existent.<\/p>\n

Different language communities and users need different tools, for various reasons. Smartphones and social media, however, require some computer processing in any language. Being able to type our languages on all devices is the first \u2014 and an easy \u2014 step. Language technology may strengthen literacy and the use of the language in new domains.<\/p>\n

But there is no silver bullet \u2014 good models and tools require a lot of work. This work must be done by each language community (in cooperation with linguists and programmers).<\/p>\n

The open and free GiellaLT infrastructure developed and used by Divvun and Giellatekno provides a language independent framework for building a grammatical model of each language. The infrastructure takes the model and turns it into computer programs and useful tools for the language community. All the technical labor to make the tools work in MS Office, Windows, MacOS and elsewhere is done separately from the linguistic work. Each language community can then concentrate on developing the grammatical model.<\/p>\n

Using this free and open-source infrastructure, other communities are creating similar tools for Indigenous languages in Canada and Russia. And what\u2019s best, all parties cooperate to improve the common infrastructure and tools.<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> https:\/\/indigenous-langtech.uit.no\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/em>
\nAll information was obtained from UiT\u2019s Indigenous language technology website.<\/em><\/p>\n

Photos:<\/em>
\nGiellatekno team working: Linda Wiechetek<\/em>
\nHands using computer: Bj\u00f8rn Hatteng<\/em><\/p>\n

Download the original exhibition poster in PDF format<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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