Sjur Moshagen
Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen is a chief engineer at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and has been leading Sámi language technology development for the last 20 years. Previously, he developed language technology at Lingsoft of Helsinki, Finland.
Developing Language Technology Tools for Low-Resource Languages
For 20 years, Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen has led an effort to develop language technology tools for the indigenous Sámi languages of Northern Europe. While the project has produced many important tools, the limitations of commonly used hardware and software negatively affect their ease of use. Moshagen ends by proposing an “open language” model similar to the idea of open source.