Picking the crucial language technologies and how Wikipedia can help: the Welsh experience
When you're making plans to get people using your language as much and as often as possible, there's a list of things related to Wikipedia which can really help. I'll share our experience with the Welsh language. Supporting the Welsh-language Wikipedia community forms Work Package 15...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/6204 2023-05-15T14:23:47+02:00 Picking the crucial language technologies and how Wikipedia can help: the Welsh experience Morlais, Gareth 2021-10-19 video/mp4 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/6204 https://doi.org/10.7557/5.6204 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/6204/6263 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/6204 doi:10.7557/5.6204 Copyright (c) 2021 Gareth Morlais https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Septentrio Conference Series; No. 3 (2021): Arctic Knot Conference 2021 2387-3086 10.7557/scs.2021.3 Wikipedia language technology Welsh Arctic Knot Conference 2021 Welsh Wikipedia info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Non-refereed conference presentation 2021 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/5.6204 https://doi.org/10.7557/scs.2021.3 2021-10-20T22:54:10Z When you're making plans to get people using your language as much and as often as possible, there's a list of things related to Wikipedia which can really help. I'll share our experience with the Welsh language. Supporting the Welsh-language Wikipedia community forms Work Package 15 of 27 in the Welsh Government's Welsh Language Technology Action Plan https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2018-12/welsh-language-technology-and-digital-media-action-plan.pdf. We like supporting Welsh language Wikipedia editing workshops, video workshops and other channels that encourage people to create and publish Welsh-language video, audio, graphic and text content because we're on a mission to try to help double daily use of Welsh by 2050. I'll share developments we're funding in speech, translation and conversational AI. The partners we're giving grants to publish what they develop under open licence. So we can share what we've funded with many companies. We think Microsoft might have used some to make their new synthetic voices in Welsh. We're excited by the potential Wikidata offers. We'll look at its potential in populating Welsh maps this year. We've already used Wikipedia search data as a way of prioritising the training of a Welsh virtual assistant. Welsh may not be spending as much as Icelandic and Estonian do on language technologies, but we'd like to share what we're learning as a smaller language about the important areas to focus on and how Wikipedia can help. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Arctic Septentrio Conference Series 3 |
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When you're making plans to get people using your language as much and as often as possible, there's a list of things related to Wikipedia which can really help. I'll share our experience with the Welsh language. Supporting the Welsh-language Wikipedia community forms Work Package 15 of 27 in the Welsh Government's Welsh Language Technology Action Plan https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2018-12/welsh-language-technology-and-digital-media-action-plan.pdf. We like supporting Welsh language Wikipedia editing workshops, video workshops and other channels that encourage people to create and publish Welsh-language video, audio, graphic and text content because we're on a mission to try to help double daily use of Welsh by 2050. I'll share developments we're funding in speech, translation and conversational AI. The partners we're giving grants to publish what they develop under open licence. So we can share what we've funded with many companies. We think Microsoft might have used some to make their new synthetic voices in Welsh. We're excited by the potential Wikidata offers. We'll look at its potential in populating Welsh maps this year. We've already used Wikipedia search data as a way of prioritising the training of a Welsh virtual assistant. Welsh may not be spending as much as Icelandic and Estonian do on language technologies, but we'd like to share what we're learning as a smaller language about the important areas to focus on and how Wikipedia can help. |
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