Language Report Slovak

Abstract For Slovak, all the fundamental NLP building blocks for basic applications exist, but they are often of lesser quality and lower accuracy than those of other languages. The availability of free and open tools and data is rather low, with most of the resources proprietary. Compared to neighbouring languages of similar levels of NLP development (Czech, Polish, Hungarian), Slovak is positioned toward the lower end of this group. Slovak language support by “big players” in the LT industry is comparable to other European languages with similar size; speech recognition and synthesis work acceptably while machine translation between Slovak and English is almost good enough to be used by professionals as a source for post-editing. Spell checkers, LT-assisted mobile phone input, OCR and lemmatised fulltext search are taken for granted, although their quality is significantly lacking compared to bigger European languages.