Ainu

Dictionaries

• Ainu conversational dictionary:
  • Kanazawa, S., & Jinbō, K. (1986). Ainugo kaiwa jiten. Sapporo: Hokkaidō Shuppan Kikaku Sentā.

• Japanese->Ainu Edict:
  • National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2015). A Topical Dictionary of Conversational Ainu [Software]. Available from http://ainutopic.ninjal.ac.jp

• An Ainu–English–Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language) Tokyo Methodist Pub. House (1905)
  • https://www.archive.org/stream/ainuenglishjapan00batcuoft?ref=ol#page/n15/mode/2up

Grammatical Descriptions

• Nlp for endangered languages: Morphology analysis, translation support and shallow parsing of ainu language, 2013: http://www.anlp.jp/proceedings/annual_meeting/2013/pdf_dir/P2-5.pdf

• Language resource assessment: http://www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de/courses/ss16/cllrl/slides/ainu-language.pdf

Scientific Works

• Michal Ptaszynski, Yoshio Momouchi, Part-of-speech tagger for Ainu language based on higher order Hidden Markov Model, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 39, Issue 14, 15 October 2012, Pages 11576-11582, ISSN 0957-4174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.04.031. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417412006288) Keywords: Part-of-speech tagging; Natural speech processing; Natural language processing; Hidden Markov Model; Ainu language

Corpora

• Audio Corpus of Ainu Folklore
  • National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2016). A Glossed Audio Corpus of Ainu Folklore [Software]. Available from http://ainucorpus.ninjal.ac.jp