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.
@InProceedings{VASIĻJEVS18.1086, author = {Andrejs Vasiļjevs and Rihards Kalniņš and Roberts Rozis and Aivars Bērziņš}, title = "{Collecting Language Resources from Public Administrations in the Nordic and Baltic Countries}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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