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%Y Rießler, Michael
%Y Morooka, Eiaki V.
%Y Kharlashkin, Lev
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%D 2025
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Markdown (Informal)
[Language technology for the minority Finnic languages](https://aclanthology.org/2025.iwclul-1.6/) (Pirinen et al., IWCLUL 2025)
ACL
- Flammie A Pirinen, Trond Trosterud, and Jack Rueter. 2025. Language technology for the minority Finnic languages. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, pages 39–48, Joensuu, Finland. Association for Computational Linguistics.