@inproceedings{d1eff1042fac462eb3a06d123e56431d,
title = "Some highlights of human language technology in baltic countries",
abstract = "Today, when we are surrounded by different smart devices, life of our languages is very much influenced by technologies that support them in digital environment. Language technology solutions are particularly important for languages that are small in size. This paper aims to analyze representation of languages of Baltic countries – Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian – in digital environment. We analyze technological challenges for these languages and most important achievements (recently created language resources and tools) that help to narrow technological gap with widely used languages, facilitate use of the natural language in interaction between computer and human, and minimize threat of digital extinction. Special attention is paid to the natural language understanding task, machine translation and speech technologies.",
keywords = "Human-computer interaction, Language resources, Languages of Baltic countries, Machine translation, Natural language processing, Speech technologies",
author = "Inguna Skadiņa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The authors and IOS Press.; 13th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems, DB and IS 2018 ; Conference date: 01-07-2018 Through 04-07-2018",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.3233/978-1-61499-941-6-18",
language = "English",
series = "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications",
publisher = "IOS Press BV",
pages = "18--30",
editor = "Audrone Lupeikiene and Olegas Vasilecas and Gintautas Dzemyda",
booktitle = "Databases and Information Systems X - Selected Papers from the 13th International Baltic Conference, DB and IS 2018",
address = "Netherlands",
}