Languages of baltic countries in digital age

Inguna Skadiņa

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97571-9_5

Languages of baltic countries in digital age

Inguna Skadiņa^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Computer Science

University of Latvia
Tilde Company

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2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Today, when we are surrounded by intelligent digital devices – computers, tablets and mobile phones, we expect communication with these devices in a natural language. Moreover, such communication needs to be in our native language. We also expect that language technologies will not only assist us in everyday tasks, but also will help to overcome problems caused by language barriers. This keynote will focus on language resources and tools that facilitate use of languages of three Baltic countries – Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian -in digital means (computers, tablets, mobile phones), allow to minimize language barriers, facilitate social inclusion, and support more natural human-computer interaction, thus making digital services more “human”. Current situation, technological challenges and most important achievements in language technologies that help to narrow technological gap, facilitates use of natural language for interaction between computer and human, and minimize threat of digital extinction will be presented.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Databases and Information Systems - 13th International Baltic Conference, DB and IS 2018, Proceedings
Editors	Olegas Vasilecas, Gintautas Dzemyda, Audrone Lupeikiene
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	32-40
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783319975702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97571-9_5
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	13th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems, DB and IS 2018 - Trakai, Lithuania Duration: 1 Jul 2018 → 4 Jul 2018

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	838
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	13th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems, DB and IS 2018
Country/Territory	Lithuania
City	Trakai
Period	1/07/18 → 4/07/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Corpora
Language resources
Languages of baltic countries
Natural language processing
Speech processing
Under-resourced languages

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Skadiņa, I 2018, Languages of baltic countries in digital age. in O Vasilecas, G Dzemyda & A Lupeikiene (eds), Databases and Information Systems - 13th International Baltic Conference, DB and IS 2018, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 838, Springer Verlag, pp. 32-40, 13th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems, DB and IS 2018, Trakai, Lithuania, 1/07/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97571-9_5

Languages of baltic countries in digital age. / Skadiņa, Inguna.
Databases and Information Systems - 13th International Baltic Conference, DB and IS 2018, Proceedings. ed. / Olegas Vasilecas; Gintautas Dzemyda; Audrone Lupeikiene. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 32-40 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 838).

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