Papers by Eric Joanis
The Nunavut Hansard Inuktitut–English Parallel Corpus 3.0 with Preliminary Machine Translation Results (2020.lrec-1)
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Eric Joanis, Rebecca Knowles, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Darlene Stewart, Jeffrey Micher
| Challenge: | Inuktitut language is a member of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan family . it is spoken in two territories, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories . |
| Approach: | They describe a sentence-aligned Inuktitut–English corpus released in Nunavut . it is the largest parallel corpus of a polysynthetic language released to date . they also describe preliminary experiments on machine translation between the languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus is the largest sentence-aligned corpus of a polysynthetic language or an Indigenous language of the Americas . the alignments were evaluated and the results were compared with other methods . |
The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software (2020.coling-main)
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Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain Désilets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennatékha, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyehténhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Benoît Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, Heather Souter
| Challenge: | This paper describes the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in preserving their languages and extending their use. |
| Approach: | They describe the first phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in preserving their languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed software will help Indigenous communities preserve and revitalize their languages and extend their use. |