Summary of the paper

Title Reusing Grammatical Resources for New Languages
Authors Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud and Linda Wiechetek
Abstract Grammatical approaches to language technology are often considered less optimalthan statistical approaches in multilingual settings, where large-scaleportability becomes an important issue. The present paper argues that there isa notable gain in reusing grammatical resources when porting technology to newlanguages. The pivot language is North Sámi, and the paper discussesportability with respect to the closely related Lule and South Sámi, and tothe unrelated Faroese and Greenlandic languages.
Language Endangered languages
Topics Grammar and Syntax, Parsing, Endangered languages
Full paper Reusing Grammatical Resources for New Languages
Bibtex @InProceedings{ANTONSEN10.254,
  author = {Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud and Linda Wiechetek},
  title = {Reusing Grammatical Resources for New Languages},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)},
  year = {2010},
  month = {may},
  date = {19-21},
  address = {Valletta, Malta},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {2-9517408-6-7},
  language = {english}
 }
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