Publications

  • Nils Hjortnaes, Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Partanen, Niko, Rießler, Michael, & Tyers, Francis. M. Improving the language model for low-resource ASR with online text corpora. In Proceedings of the 1st joint SLTU and CCURL workshop (SLTU-CCURL 2020). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). url: https://erepo.uef.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/8144/15911813882024938777.pdf?sequence=2
  • Nils Hjortnaes, Partanen, Niko, Rießler, Michael, & Tyers, Francis. M. Towards a Speech Recognizer for Komi, an Endangered and Low-Resource Uralic Language. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages, 2020 (pp. 31-37). url: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.iwclul-1.5.pdf
  • Niko Partanen, Rogier Blokland & Michael Rießler. A pseudonymization method for language documentation corpora: an experiment with spoken Komi. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages, 2020 (pp. 1-8). url: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.iwclul-1.1.pdf
  • Rogier Blokland, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. Using computational approaches to integrate endangered language legacy data into documentation corpora: past experiences and challenges ahead. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA, February 26–27, 2019. Vol. 2/5: pp. 24-30. url: https://scholar.colorado.edu/scil-cmel/vol2/iss1/5
  • Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler (2019). “An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet.” In: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages (IWCLUL 2019). Tartu: Association for Computational Linguistics, 77–89. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W19-0307
  • Jeremy Bradley, Alexandra Kellner & Niko Partanen 2018. Variation in word order in Permic and Mari varieties – a corpus-based investigation. In: G. Je. Kornilov, A. M. Ivanova & Semenova, G.N. (eds). Jazykovye kontakty narodov Povolž’ja i Urala. XI Meždunarodnyj simpozium (Cheboksary, 21.-24. maja 2018 g.). Sbornik statej. Cheboksary. pp. 238–244
  • KyungTae Lim, Niko Partanen & Thierry Poibeau. Analyse syntaxique de langues faiblement dotées à partir de plongements de mots multilingues. Application au same du nord et au komi-zyriène. TAL. Volume 59 – n◦ 3/2018, pp. 67-91
  • KyungTae Lim, Niko Partanen & Thierry Poibeau. Multilingual Dependency Parsing for Low-Resource Languages: Case Studies on North Saami and Komi-Zyrian. Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 7.-12.5.2018, Miyazaki, Japan, pp. 2230-2235.
  • Niko Partanen, Rogier Blokland, KyungTae Lim, Thierry Poibeau & Michael Rießler. “The first Komi-Zyrian Universal Dependencies treebanks.” In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2018). Brussels: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 126–132. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6015
  • Niko Partanen, KyungTae Lim, Michael Rießler & Thierry Poibeau. “Dependency parsing of code-switching data with cross-lingual feature representations.” In: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages (IWCLUL 2018). Ed. by Tommi A. Pirinen, Michael Rießler, Jack Rueter, Trond Trosterud & Francis M. Tyers. Helsinki: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1–17. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W18/W18-0201.pdf
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. “Instant annotations. Applying NLP methods to the annotation of spoken language documentation corpora.” In: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages (IWCLUL 2017). Ed. by Tommi A. Pirinen, Michael Rießler, Trond Trosterud, and Francis M. Tyers. St. Petersburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 25–36. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0604
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler. “Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, an endangered language of the Barents Sea region.” In: Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEl-2). Ed. by Antti Arppe, Jeff Good, Mans Hulden, Jordan Lachler, Alexis Palmer, and Lane Schwartz. Honolulu: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 57–66. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0109
  • Michael Rießler. “Language documentation meets language technology.” In: Электронная письменность народов Российской Федерации. Опыт, проблемы и перспективы. Сборник материалов международной научной конференции, 16–17 марта 2017 г., Сыктывкар. Ed. by Марина С. Федина. Сыктывкар: ГОУ ВО КРАГСиУ, pp. 279–287.
  • Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. “Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic. A proposed symbiosis for language documentation and oral history research, illustrated by Saami and Komi examples.” In: Oral history meets linguistics. Ed. by Erich Kasten, Katja Roller, and Joshua Wilbur. Exhibitions and Symposia. Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, pp. 31–64. url: http://www.siberian-studies.org/publications/PDF/orhili_riessler_wilbur.pdf
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. “Instant annotations. Applying NLP methods to the annotation of spoken language documentation corpora.” In: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages (IWCLUL 2017). Ed. by Tommi A. Pirinen, Michael Rießler, Trond Trosterud, and Francis M. Tyers. St. Petersburg: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 25–36. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0604
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler. “Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, an endangered language of the Barents Sea region.” In: Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEl-2). Ed. by Antti Arppe, Jeff Good, Mans Hulden, Jordan Lachler, Alexis Palmer, and Lane Schwartz. Honolulu: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 57–66. url: http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-0109
  • Michael Rießler. “Language documentation meets language technology.” In: Электронная письменность народов Российской Федерации. Опыт, проблемы и перспективы. Сборник материалов международной научной конференции, 16–17 марта 2017 г., Сыктывкар. Ed. by Марина С. Федина. Сыктывкар: ГОУ ВО КРАГСиУ, pp. 279–287.
  • Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. “Documenting endangered oral histories of the Arctic. A proposed symbiosis for language documentation and oral history research, illustrated by Saami and Komi examples.” In: Oral history meets linguistics. Ed. by Erich Kasten, Katja Roller, and Joshua Wilbur. Exhibitions and Symposia. Fürstenberg: Kulturstiftung Sibirien, pp. 31–64. url: http://www.siberian-studies.org/publications/PDF/orhili_riessler_wilbur.pdf

Presentations

  • Rogier Blokland, Marina Fedina, Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler. “Closing the cycle of language documentation, corpus building and corpus-based description of Komi-Zyrian”, Descriptive grammars and typology. The challenges of writing grammars of underdescribed and endangered languages. 27.–29. March 2019, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Rogier Blokland, Marina Fedina, Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler. “An implemented grammar for the documentation and description of Komi-Zyrian, an endangered language of Northern Russia”. 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. 28. February–3. March 2019, Honololu, USA.
  • Rogier Blokland, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. ‘Using computational approaches to integrate endangered language legacy data into documentation corpora: Past experiences and challenges ahead.’ ComputEL-3. 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages. 26-27 February 2019, Honololu, USA.
  • Niko Partanen, Joshua Wilbur & Michael Rießler. “A workflow for automated corpus annotation in ELAN using an open NLP toolkit for Northern Eurasian languages”, 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. 28. February–3. March 2019, Honololu, USA.
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler & Joshua Wilbur. “NLP in Language Documentation and Revitalisation”, 22rd Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.23. August 2018, Reykjavík, Iceland.
  • Michael Rießler. “The Freiburg infrastructure for pan-Saami (and pan-Barents) speech corpora”, Seminar on Electronic Corpora for Spoken Sámi. 13. September 2018, Kautokeino, Norway.
  • Michael Rießler. “Recording, Annotating, and Analysing Oral Histories of the Arctic (Methods in Documentary Anthropology and Linguistics)”, Workshop: Mediating the Arctic. 16. March 2018, Rovaniemi, Finland.
  • Niko Partanen, Marina Fedina & Michael Rießler. “New perspectives on archiving practices in language documentation.” IASA 2017 conference, 19. September 2017, Berlin, Germany.
  • Niko Partanen. “Issues with archiving linguistic data. Perspectives from work on Permic languages.” Travaux de terrains anthropologiques et linguistiques : expériences et difficultés, 20. May 2017, INALCO, Paris, France.
  • Niko Partanen. “Russian influence across Komi registers”. Colloquium “From Language Mixing to Fused Lects”, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 25.–27.1., Freiburg, Germany.
  • Michael Rießler. “Data management, corpus building, archiving in Freiburg-based language documentation projects”, CLARIN-D F-AG 3 Workshop. 5. October 2017, Hamburg, Germany.
  • Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler. “Annotated audiovisual data – experiences from language documentation”, The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives 48th Annual Conference, 17.–21. September 2017, Berlin, Germany.
  • Michael Rießler. “NLP in endangered language documentation: Building and investigating corpora for under-resourced languages of the Barents Sea region”, Workshop: OV to VO, VO to OV. 23.–24. June 2017, Bielefeld, Germany.
  • Michael Rießler. “NLP in endangered language documentation: Building and investigating corpora for under-resourced languages of the Barents Sea region«, HUMSS Colloquium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 12 June 2017, Freiburg, Germany.
  • Michael Rießler. “Technology in Endangered Language Documentation and Description”, Conference: Travaux de terrains anthropologiques et linguistiques: expériences et difficultés. 18.–20. May 2017, Paris, France.
  • Michael Rießler. “Language Documentation meets Language Technology”, International Scientific Conference Electronic Writing of RF Peoples: History, Issues, and Perspectives”. 16.–17. March 2017, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation.

Posters

  • Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler. “An OCR system for the Unified Northern Alphabet.” Fifth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. 7 January 2019, Tartu, Estonia.
  • KyungTae Lim, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler & Thierry Poibeau. “Dependency parsing of code-switching data with cross-lingual feature representations”, Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages. 8.–9. January 2018, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler. “Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, an endangered language of the Barents Sea region”. 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. 6. March 2017, Honolulu, USA.
  • Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen & Michael Rießler: »Instant annotations: Applying NLP methods to the annotation of spoken language documentation corpora«, Third International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic languages. 23. January 2017, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Electronic resources

  • Nivre, Joakim; Abrams, Mitchell; Agić, Željko; et al. Universal Dependencies 2.3, LINDAT/CLARIN digital library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. url: http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-2895.
  • Niko Partanen: Parallel corpus for Erzya, Hill Mari, Permian Komi, Zyrian Komi and Udmurt (Version v0.1.0). Zenodo. url: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2615038
  • Niko Partanen, & Michael Rießler. (2019, March 20). langdoc/unified-northern-alphabet-ocr: Unified Northern Alphabet OCR Ground Truth (Version v1.2). Zenodo. url: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2600080