Una eina per a una llengua en procés d'estandardització: el traductor automàtic català-sard

Fronteddu, Gianfranco; Font, Hèctor Alòs i; Tyers, Francis M.

doi:10.21814/lm.9.2.255

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“…A small set of Vivaroalpine examples has been included in an Occitan subcorpus with POS annotations (Bernhard et al, 2018(Bernhard et al, , 2021, whereas for Ladin, previous work includes MT from and to Italian for the Val Badia variety (Frontull, 2022). MT has also been studied for Sicilian English and zero-shot Sicilian Italian (Wdowiak, 2022), and for Italian→Sardinian and Catalan→Sardinian (Fronteddu et al, 2017).…”

Section: Nlp For Specific Varieties Of Italymentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Ramponi

2024

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Italy is characterized by a one-of-a-kind linguistic diversity landscape in Europe, which implicitly encodes local knowledge, cultural traditions, artistic expressions, and history of its speakers. However, most local languages and dialects in Italy are at risk of disappearing within a few generations. The NLP community has recently begun to engage with endangered languages, including those of Italy. Yet, most efforts assume that these varieties are under-resourced language monoliths with an established written form and homogeneous functions and needs, and thus highly interchangeable with each other and with high-resource, standardized languages. In this paper, we introduce the linguistic context of Italy and challenge the default machine-centric assumptions of NLP for Italy’s language varieties. We advocate for a shift in the paradigm from machine-centric to speaker-centric NLP, and provide recommendations and opportunities for work that prioritizes languages and their speakers over technological advances. To facilitate the process, we finally propose building a local community towards responsible, participatory efforts aimed at supporting vitality of languages and dialects of Italy.

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Section: Nlp For Specific Varieties Of Italymentioning

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Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Ramponi

2024

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Recent advances in Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform for low-resource languages

Khanna

Washington

Tyers

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This paper presents an overview of Apertium, a free and open-source rule-based machine translation platform. Translation in Apertium happens through a pipeline of modular tools, and the platform continues to be improved as more language pairs are added. Several advances have been implemented since the last publication, including some new optional modules: a module that allows rules to process recursive structures at the structural transfer stage, a module that deals with contiguous and discontiguous multi-word expressions, and a module that resolves anaphora to aid translation. Also highlighted is the hybridisation of Apertium through statistical modules that augment the pipeline, and statistical methods that augment existing modules. This includes morphological disambiguation, weighted structural transfer, and lexical selection modules that learn from limited data. The paper also discusses how a platform like Apertium can be a critical part of access to language technology for so-called low-resource languages, which might be ignored or deemed unapproachable by popular corpus-based translation technologies. Finally, the paper presents some of the released and unreleased language pairs, concluding with a brief look at some supplementary Apertium tools that prove valuable to users as well as language developers. All Apertium-related code, including language data, is free/open-source and available at https://github.com/apertium.

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Una eina per a una llengua en procés d'estandardització: el traductor automàtic català-sard

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Language Varieties of Italy: Technology Challenges and Opportunities

Recent advances in Apertium, a free/open-source rule-based machine translation platform for low-resource languages

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