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Languages of Baltic Countries in Digital Age

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Databases and Information Systems (DB&IS 2018)

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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.

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    http://www.meta-net.eu.

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    http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/ict-29-2018.html.

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    https://www.clarin.eu/content/clarin-in-a-nutshell.

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    https://elex.is/.

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    http://www.lr-coordination.eu/.

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    https://www.keeletehnoloogia.ee.

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    https://keeleressursid.ee/en/.

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    http://semantika.lt/.

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    https://www.cpva.lt/lt/veikla/paramos-administravimas/es-fondu-investicijos-q6t3/finansuojamos-sritys/informacine_visuomene/lietuviu-kalba-informacinese-technologijose.html.

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    http://universaldependencies.org/.

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    https://www.raštija.lt/liepa.

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    https://www.ipsoft.com/amelia/.

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    http://www.migracija.lt/index.php?2044534709.

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The research was developed under the University of Latvia contract no. AAP2016/B032 “Innovative information technologies”.

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    Inguna Skadiņa

  2. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science UL, Riga, Latvia

    Inguna Skadiņa

  3. Tilde, Riga, Latvia

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Skadiņa, I. (2018). Languages of Baltic Countries in Digital Age. In: Lupeikiene, A., Vasilecas, O., Dzemyda, G. (eds) Databases and Information Systems. DB&IS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 838. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97571-9_5

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