Alex Speed Kjeldsen


2021

Danish language technology has been hindered by a lack of broad-coverage corpora at the scale modern NLP prefers. This paper describes the Danish Gigaword Corpus, the result of a focused effort to provide a diverse and freely-available one billion word corpus of Danish text. The Danish Gigaword corpus covers a wide array of time periods, domains, speakers’ socio-economic status, and Danish dialects.

2019

This paper introduces language processing resources and tools for Bornholmsk, a language spoken on the island of Bornholm, with roots in Danish and closely related to Scanian. This presents an overview of the language and available data, and the first NLP models for this living, minority Nordic language. Sammenfattnijng på borrijnholmst: Dæjnna artikkelijn introduserer natursprågsresurser å varktoi for borrijnholmst, ed språg a dær snakkes på ön Borrijnholm me rødder i danst å i nær familia me skånst. Artikkelijn gjer ed âuersyn âuer språged å di datan som fijnnes, å di fosste NLP modællarna for dætta læwenes nordiska minnretâlsspråged.