Pronouns in Estonian Child Language

On the referential properties of Estonian pronouns and demonstratives

Strengthening the Estonian Language Technology

The paper will give an overview of developments in Estonia in the field of Human Language Technologies. Despite of the fact that Estonian is one of the smallest official languages in EU and therefore in less favourable position in the HLT-market, the national initiatives are undertaken in order to promote HLT development in Estonia. The paper will introduce recent activities in Estonia, includi...

Bulgarian Pronouns in Universal Networking Language

The paper presents a computationally tractable application of Bulgarian pronouns representation using Universal Networking Language (UNL) formalism. It analyses grammar features of pronouns and offers a model of their formal representation based on incorporation of grammar, semantic and lexical knowledge by using standard UNL knowledge representation mechanisms. The entire application presents ...

Named Entity Recognition for the Estonian Language

Rhythmic Variability and Swedish-Estonian Language Contact

Pairwise Variability Index (PVI) gives a measure of the amount of variation between adjacent speech units, making it possible to arrange languages in a continuum of relative variability. In the present study, the PVI of Estonian speakers living in Sweden for over 60 years was compared to the PVI of Swedish and of Estonian spoken in Estonia. The results show that (1) PVI is significantly higher ...