NLP for minority languages

Chris BrewCSE and Linguistics

Anna Feldman

•faculty at Montclair State University

•Russian native speaker. Slavic language expertise

•Learnt to program while at OSU

•Double major BA in English and East Asian Studies, HUJ

Russian POS tagging

Jan Hajič Eva Hajičova

Resource light tagging

Resource light tagging

•All human languages are related in some way.

Resource light tagging

•All human languages are related in some way.

•Some of them closely related.

Resource light tagging

•All human languages are related in some way.

•Some of them closely related.

•We used that fact

Markov Model

Det Adj Noun

A red book

Markov Model

Adj-Nom Nn-Nom

книгакрасная

Markov Model

Adj-Nom Nn-Nom

knihaČervená

Markov Model

Adj-Nom Nn-Nom

knihaČervená

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• Kirk Baker

• Phonetician/phonologist, worked with Chip Gerfen at UNC

• Now working at Collexis in DC area as computational linguist.

Heuristics for animacy

Tagalog: not yet in Google Translate

Credo

Credo

• Language provides computer science with very interesting problems

Credo

• Language provides computer science with very interesting problems

• Theoretical ideas like language relatedness can have real technological impact

Credo

• Language provides computer science with very interesting problems

• Theoretical ideas like language relatedness can have real technological impact

• Machine learning has a kind of eldritch magic

Credo

• Language provides computer science with very interesting problems

• Theoretical ideas like language relatedness can have real technological impact

• Machine learning has a kind of eldritch magic

• Teach me about your beautiful language...