On May 12–13, for the first time in Riga, the 18th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics NODALIDA 2011 took place. Participants were computational linguists as well as developers of language resources and technologies from 20 countries, including Nordic and Baltic countries, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Switzerland, Germany and other countries.
Topics of NODALIDA 2011 papers were diverse and included corpus linguistics, syntax, machine translation and voice technologies. Tilde participated in the conference with two reports. Raivis Skadiņš, the leading software architect of Tilde, presented the application of ontologies in the machine translation. The report of Daiga Deksne, system architect, was devoted to the Latvian grammar checker.
The Conference was organized by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, the University of Latvia and NEALT, the Northern European Association for Language Technology.
