Like other small languages, Faroese struggles to establish its presence in the digital world. Globalization and the development of large language models in major world languages place increasing pressure on smaller languages. This makes it essential to identify solutions that ensure Faroese not only survives but also thrives in [...]
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The Centre for Language Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands and the publisher Fróðskapur have signed an agreement allowing texts published by Fróðskapur to be used for the development of Faroese language technology. The agreement is part of the Faroese MegaWord Corpus project, which aims to gather large amounts of Faroese texts for various purposes. This text corpus can, for example, be used
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Barbara Scalvini, lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Technology, and Iben Nyholm Debess, Ph.D. researcher and coordinator at the Centre for Language Technology, attended the Learning with Small Data (LSD) conference organized by The Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the University of Gothenburg. They participated with the poster titled 'Leveraging GPT-SW3 for Faroese to English translation.'
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The Ravnur Project group got the assignment to gather and create resources for a BLARK and to make Faroese speech recognition. The project started in 2019 and BLARK 1.0 was published on July 1st 2022. Language technology intertwines linguistics and IT, so linguists, students at the Faculty for Faroese and other assistants as well as IT workers joined forces to work on this project.
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