The 10th International Conference "Human Language Technologies – the Baltic Perspective"

The aim of the Baltic HLT is to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics from the Baltic sea states and other countries.

During the past two decades, notable progress has been made in language technology development in all three Baltic countries. Although our languages are often called less resourced significant results have been demonstrated in speech technologies, machine translation, and natural language understanding.

The Conference programme includes twenty-three presentations representing a wide range of topics (speech processing, machine translation, application of deep learning techniques to different natural language processing tasks, creation of language resources, and others). Conference papers are published in the Baltic Journal of Modern Computing.

The first Baltic HLT conference in 2004 was the first event to focus on language technology development in the Baltic region. The success of this event inspired the organisation of biennial conferences in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This year, the event is organized by the University of Latvia and the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, UL in cooperation with SIA "Tilde".