Computational linguistics, speech processing, natural language processing and languagetechnologies in general have all become increasingly important in an era of all-pervadingtechnological development.This book, Human Language Technologies The Baltic Perspective, presents the proceedings of the8th International Baltic Human Language Technologies Conference (Baltic HLT 2018), held in Tartu, Estonia, on 27-29 September 2018. The main aim of Baltic HLT is to provide a forum for sharing new ideas and recent advances in computational linguistics and related disciplines, and to promote cooperation between the research communities of the Baltic States and beyond. The 24 articles in this volume cover a wide range of subjects, including machine translation, automatic morphology, text classification, various language resources, and NLP pipelines, as well as speech technology; the latter being the most popular topic with 8 papers.Delivering an overview of the state-of-the-art language technologies from a Baltic perspective, the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves language processing in whatever form.
The conference provides a forum for sharing new ideas and recent developments in computational linguistics and related disciplines, and promotes cooperation between the research communities of Baltic states and beyond. The 24 papers from the 2018 meeting include discussions of an advanced rich transcription system for Estonian speech, the linguistically-motivated automatic classification of Lithuanian texts for didactic purposes, the speech-based identification of children's gender and age with neural networks, Latvian tweet corpus and investigation of sentiment analysis for Latvian, and low-resource translation quality estimation for Estonian. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
