Automatic speech recognition tools have potential for facilitating language documentation,
but in practice these tools remain little-used by linguists for a variety of reasons, such as that …

Generating accurate word-level transcripts of recorded speech for language documentation
is difficult and time-consuming, even for skilled speakers of the target language. Automatic …

This paper reports on progress integrating the speech recognition toolkit ESPnet into Elpis, a
web front-end originally designed to provide access to the Kaldi automatic speech …

The paper describes work-in-progress by the Pite Saami, Kola Saami and Izhva Komi
language documentation projects, all of which record new spoken language data, digitize …

The paper presents a method for parsing low-resource languages with very small training
corpora using multilingual word embeddings and annotated corpora of larger languages …

The systematic integration of pre-digital published transcriptions of legacy language
materials offers many possibilities to enrich documentary corpora with data that is often very …

This article discusses the prerequisites for the machine translation of sign languages. The
topic is complex, including questions relating to technology, interaction design, linguistics …

The paper describes work-in-progress by the Izhva Komi language documentation project,
which records new spoken language data, digitizes available recordings and annotate these …

We present an open online infrastructure for editing and visualization of dictionaries of
different Uralic languages (eg Erzya, Moksha, Skolt Sami and Komi-Zyrian). Our …

Building a treebank from scratch can easily be an elaborate, highly time consuming task,
especially when working with a minority language with moderately complex morphology and …