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Senioringeniør Department of Language and Culture linda.wiechetek@uit.no +4777623134 You can find me here

Linda Wiechetek

Job description

I'm a computational linguist who thinks that every time you hire a linguist the system improves!
I work with NLP and write grammars for computers.

  • Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Flammie Pirinen, Lene Antonsen, Børre Gaup, Inga Lill Sigga Mikkelsen, Trond Trosterud et al.:
    The GiellaLT infrastructure: A multilingual infrastructure for rule-based NLP
    NEALT Monograph Series 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Trond Trosterud, Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Linda Wiechetek :
    Correcting well-known interference errors – Towards a L2 grammar checker for Inari Saami
    2023 DOI
  • Linda Wiechetek, Flammie Pirinen, Børre Gaup, Chiara Argese, Thomas Omma :
    Mii *eai leat gal vuollánan – Vi *ha neimen ikke gitt opp
    Nordlyd 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Linda Wiechetek, Flammie Pirinen, Børre Gaup, Thomas Omma :
    No more fumbling in the dark - Quality assurance of high-level NLP tools in a multi-lingual infrastructure
    Association for Computational Linguistics 2021 DATA
  • Linda Wiechetek, Flammie Pirinen, Hämäläinen Mika, Chiara Argese :
    Rules Ruling Neural Networks - Neural vs. Rule-Based Grammar Checking for a Low Resource Language
    2021 DOI
  • Linda Wiechetek, Chiara Argese, Tommi Pirinen, Trond Trosterud :
    Suoidne-varra-bleahkka-mála-bihkka-senet-dielku 'hay-blood-ink-paint-tar-mustard-stain' -Should compounds be lexicalized in NLP?
    CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2020 FULLTEKST / ARKIV
  • Linda Wiechetek, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen :
    Seeing more than whitespace —Tokenisation and disambiguation in a North Sámi grammar checker
    Association for Computational Linguistics 2019
  • Linda Wiechetek, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Thomas Omma :
    Is this the end? Two-step tokenization of sentence boundaries
    2019 DOI
  • Linda Wiechetek, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Børre Gaup, Thomas Omma :
    Many shades of grammar checking - Launching a constraint grammar tool for North sámi
    Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 2019 FULLTEKST / DATA / OMTALE
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Constraint Grammar based Correction of Grammatical Errors for North Sámi
    European Language Resources Association 2012
  • Linda Wiechetek, Jose Maria Arriola :
    An Experiment of Use and Reuse of Verb Valency in Morphosyntactic Disambiguation and Machine Translation for Euskara and North Sámi
    NEALT Proceedings Series 2011
  • Linda Wiechetek, Francis M. Tyers, Thomas Omma :
    Shooting at Flies in the Dark: Rule-Based Lexical Selection for a Minority Language Pair
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2010
  • Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Linda Wiechetek :
    Reusing Grammatical Resources for New Languages
    European Language Resources Association 2010
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Semánttalaš rollaid mearkkašupmi giellateknologiijas
    Dieđut 2009
  • Francis Tyers, Linda Wiechetek, Trond Trosterud :
    Developing Prototypes for Machine Translation between Two Sámi Languages
    2009
  • Trond Trosterud, Linda Wiechetek :
    Disambiguering av homonymi i nord- og lulesamisk
    Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 2007 FULLTEKST
  • Linda Wiechetek, Flammie Antero Pirinen, Børre Gaup, Trond Trosterud, Maja Lisa Kappfjell, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen :
    The Ethical Question–Use of Indigenous Corpora for Large Language Models
    2024 FULLTEKST
  • Flammie Pirinen, Linda Wiechetek :
    Building an Extremely Low Resource Language to High Resource Language Machine Translation System from Scratch
    2022
  • Linda Wiechetek, Katri Hiovain-Asikainen, Inga Lill Sigga Mikkelsen, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Flammie Pirinen, Trond Trosterud et al.:
    Unmasking the Myth of Effortless Big Data - Making an Open Source Multi-lingual Infrastructure and Building Language Resources from Scratch
    2022 FULLTEKST
  • Flammie Pirinen, Trond Trosterud, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Linda Wiechetek :
    GiellaLT: an infrastructure for rule-based language technology tool development
    2022
  • Inga Lill Sigga Mikkelsen, Linda Wiechetek, Flammie Pirinen :
    Reusing a Multi-lingual Setup to Bootstrap a Grammar Checker for a Very Low Resource Language without Data
    2022
  • Linda Wiechetek, Flammie Pirinen, Mika Hämäläinen, Chiara Argese :
    Rules Ruling Neural Networks–Neural vs. Rule-Based Grammar Checking for a Low Resource Language
    2021
  • Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Linda Wiechetek, Thomas Omma :
    Is this the end? Two-step tokenization of sentence boundaries
    2019
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    When grammar can't be trusted - Valency and semantic categories in North Sámi syntactic analysis and error detection
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2018
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Valeanssat ja valeansačuolmmat grammatihkkadivvumis
    2016
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Linda Wiechetek, el vínculo entre euskara y sami
    03. April 2011
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Linda Wiechetek : euskara, nere 8. hizkuntza !
    31. May 2011
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Programas en Euskera ayudarán al desarrollo del Sami
    31. July 2010
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    euskara eta samieraren parekotasunak topatu ditu ikerlari batek
    31. July 2010
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Hizkuntza txikiak elkarlanean
    04. August 2010
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Una alemana estudia la relación entre el euskera y la lengua nórdica sami
    31. July 2010
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    "La cooperación entre idiomas minoritarios es muy importante" La lingüista Linda Wiechetek analiza junto a IXA taldea estructuras similares en sámi y euskara
    01. October 2010
  • Linda Wiechetek :
    Una lingüista estudia en Donostia la relación entre euskera y sami
    31. July 2010
  • Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Linda Wiechetek :
    Reusing Grammatical Resources for New Languages
    2010
  • Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Linda Wiechetek, laila susanne Sara :
    Presentasjon av samisk språkteknologi: 2 postere, 1 folder, 1 lysbildepresentasjon
    Forskningstorget 2009 2009
  • Trond Trosterud, Francis Tyers, Linda Wiechetek :
    Developing Prototypes for Machine Translation between Two Sámi Languages
    2009
  • Trond Trosterud, Lene Antonsen, Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen, Thomas Omma, Tomi Pieski et al.:
    The key role of grammar-based technology in language vitalisation
    2009

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    Research interests

    grammar checking, valency, RBMT (rule-based machine translation), dependencies, morpho-syntactic disambiguation, semantics, fun languages with many cases