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Machine Translation for English–Inuktitut with Segmentation, Data Acquisition and Pre-Training

open access: yesConference on Machine Translation, 2020
Translating to and from low-resource polysynthetic languages present numerous challenges for NMT. We present the results of our systems for the English–Inuktitut language pair for the WMT 2020 translation tasks.
Christian Roest   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Initiatives on preserving the the Inuktitut language in Nunavut

open access: yesЧеловек и культура, 2021
The subject of this research is the main initiatives undertaken in Nunavut aimed at preservation and development of the Inuktitut, which is the language of one of the three indigenous peoples of Canada – the Inuit.
G. Frenk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Language and identity in an Indigenous teacher education program

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2019
The Inuit Bachelor of Education (IBED) and the associated Inuktitut language training, developed by the Nunatsiavut Government, has been an opportunity to explore the relationships between cultural identity and learning an Indigenous heritage language as
Sylvia Moore
doaj   +1 more source

The University of Edinburgh’s English-Tamil and English-Inuktitut Submissions to the WMT20 News Translation Task

open access: yesConference on Machine Translation, 2020
We describe the University of Edinburgh’s submissions to the WMT20 news translation shared task for the low resource language pair English-Tamil and the mid-resource language pair English-Inuktitut.
Rachel Bawden   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Numération et repérage temporel en inuktitut du Nunavik

open access: yes, 2021
Although the Inuit numeration system has no structural limits, its actual use is limited to concrete situations where the quantities involved are small. In Inuktitut (Inuit dialects of the Canadian Eastern Arctic), this system has traditionally had very
M. Mahieu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pharmaceutical health care and Inuit language communications in Nunavut, Canada [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013
Background. Pharmaceutical communication is an essential component of pharmaceutical health care, optimally ensuring patients understand the proper administration and side effects of their medications.
Sandra J. Romain
doaj   +1 more source

Taima (stop) TB: the impact of a multifaceted TB awareness and door-to-door campaign in residential areas of high risk for TB in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The incidence rate of active tuberculosis (TB) disease in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut has shown a rising trend over the past 10 years. In 2010 it was 60 times greater than the national incidence rate. The objective of the Taima (translates to "stop"
Gonzalo G Alvarez   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

CUNI Submission for the Inuktitut Language in WMT News 2020

open access: yesConference on Machine Translation, 2020
This paper describes CUNI submission to the WMT 2020 News Translation Shared Task for the low-resource scenario Inuktitut–English in both translation directions.
Tom Kocmi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Debbie Folaron discusses the role of language and translation in endangered Aboriginal communities (Cree, Naskapi, Innu) with Julie Brittain and Marguerite MacKenzie

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2015
According to the 2011 Census of Population conducted and published by Statistics Canada, there are over 60 Aboriginal languages grouped into 12 distinct language families in Canada.
Debbie Folaron   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Morphological Integration of English-Origin Loanwords in Inuktitut

open access: yesInternational Journal of Linguistics and Indigenous Culture
English-origin loanwords in Inuktitut are integrated morphologically. As an example, the Inuktitut word guulu, from English “gold”, can undergo affixation with the bound morphemes siuq, meaning “to search for”, and vik, denoting a place where an action ...
Connor Mi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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