Improving Basic Natural Language Processing Tools for the Ainu Language

Ainu is a critically endangered language spoken by the native inhabitants of northern Japan. This paper describes our research aimed at the development of technology for automatic processing of text in Ainu. In particular, we improved the existing tools for normalizing old transcriptions, word segme...

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Main Authors: Karol Nowakowski, Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yoshio Momouchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Series:Information
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/10/11/329