Projektpresentation: Ei intelligent elektronisk ordbok for samisk

Abstract

The article presents Vuosttáš Digisánit (VD), an electronic dictionary from North Sámi to Norwegian. Its novelty lies in the way we have utilized existing resources (a basic dictionary and a morphological analyser/generator) in order to create a reception dictionary for language learners for a morphologically rich language. With only 7,9 % of the word forms in Sámi running text being identical to the lemma form, an approach along the lines sketched here is a prerequisite for a text-integrated e-dictionary. Being a learner dictionary, VD also gives key paradigms for each lemma. This paradigm is generated when building the dictionary, using our language technology tools. We have also built an infrastructure that can be reused for other languages and dictionaries. Our approach shows how it is possible to build textintegrated electronic dictionaries for morphologically complex languages with limited means. The dictionary is available free of charge at:
http://giellatekno.uit.no/words/dicts/index.eng.html.