| Year | 2025 Dec–2028 Dec |
|---|---|
| Funding |
State Research Programme
Letonika – Fostering a Latvian and European Society VPP-IZM-LETONIKA-2025/1-0004 |
| Partners | University of Latvia, Riga Technical University |
| Abstract | The "Digital Resources and AI Technologies for the Sustainability of the Latvian Language" (DigiLATE) project aims to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Latvian language in a digital environment. This will be achieved by developing essential language resources for Latvian, enhancing digital research infrastructure and creating innovative, inclusive artificial intelligence solutions. Bringing together Latvia's leading institutions in linguistics, computational linguistics and digital humanities, the project intends to create substantial digital resources for Latvian and Latgalian. Specifically, DigiLATE plans to create and analyse speech recognition and synthesis systems; evaluate large language models for Latvian language applications; create new speech, text, and sign language corpora; and improve the main Latvian language resource platforms, Tēzaurs.lv and Korpuss.lv. To continue developing modern language data, the project also plans to conduct linguistic research on the syntactic and prosodic marking of spontaneous speech, as well as research to advance natural language processing technology for the Latgalian language. DigiLATE's innovations in linguistics and artificial intelligence technologies will strengthen Latvia's position in digital humanities and ensure the development of citizen science and inclusive artificial intelligence solutions for people with special needs. Project results will be made available as open data, in accordance with FAIR principles, and integrated into European research infrastructures, such as CLARIN and DARIAH ERIC. |
| Homepage | https://www.digitalhumanities.lv/projekti/digilate/ |