Building an open-source development infrastructure for language technology projects
Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Tommi A. Pirinen, Trond Trosterud · DSpace repository (University of Tartu) · 2013
The article presents the Giellatekno & Divvun language technology resources, more specifically the effort to utilise open-source tools to improve the build infrastructure, and the solutions to help adapt to best practices for software development.The article especially discusses how the infrastructure has been remade to cope with an increasing number of languages without incurring extra overhead for the maintainers, and at the same time let the linguists concentrate on the linguistic work.Finally, the article discusses how a uniform infrastructure like the one presented can be used to easily compare languages in terms of morphological or computational complexity, coverage or for cross-lingual applications.