Niko Partanen

Multilingual Facilitation Niko Partanen

This is the Festschrift of Dr. Jack Rueter. The book presents peer-reviewed scientific work from Dr. Rueter's colleagues related to the latest advances in natural language processing, digital resources and endangered languages in a variety of languages such as historical English, Chukchi, Mansi, Erzya, Komi, Finnish, Apurinã, Sign Languages, Sami languages and Japanese. Most of the papers present work on endangered languages or on domains with a limited number of resources available for NLP. This book collects original and insightful papers from well-established researchers in NLP, linguistics, philology and digital humanities. This is a tribute to Dr. Rueter's long career that is characterized by constant altruistic work towards a greater good in building free and open-source tools and resources for endangered languages. Dr. Rueter is a true pioneer in the field of digital documentation of endangered languages.