
Maja Kappfjell developed and maintained linguistic resources for the giellalt/lang-sma repository, focusing on lexicon expansion, morphology, and data quality for South Sami language processing. She engineered new lemma entries, improved abbreviation handling, and enhanced semantic tagging, leveraging Python, Shell scripting, and lexc for data curation and automation. Her work included integrating external lexicons, refining grammar-checker datasets, and stabilizing spellchecking workflows, which improved NLP accuracy and reduced manual corrections. Through systematic code cleanup, documentation, and version control, Maja ensured maintainable, production-ready language data, supporting downstream NLP tasks and enabling scalable updates for future linguistic and computational research.

October 2025: Delivered lexicon enhancements and planning work for Sami proper noun analysis in giellalt/lang-sma. Implemented lexicon entries and morphology handling (Err/Orth) for Æjsa and on´ohtje, and added new lemmas including Sámi Allaskuvla. Authored an agenda for Smi proper noun analysis improvements, outlining issues and proposed solutions for lexicon organization and inflection handling. These efforts increase lexical coverage, improve lemmatization consistency, and establish a scalable foundation for future NLP accuracy and language support.
October 2025: Delivered lexicon enhancements and planning work for Sami proper noun analysis in giellalt/lang-sma. Implemented lexicon entries and morphology handling (Err/Orth) for Æjsa and on´ohtje, and added new lemmas including Sámi Allaskuvla. Authored an agenda for Smi proper noun analysis improvements, outlining issues and proposed solutions for lexicon organization and inflection handling. These efforts increase lexical coverage, improve lemmatization consistency, and establish a scalable foundation for future NLP accuracy and language support.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-09 (giellalt/lang-sma). Delivered substantive lexical improvements and policy-aligned updates, enhancing NLP accuracy and compliance for SMA language processing. The work focused on expanding coverage, improving tagging/morphology, and maintaining a clean lexicon suitable for production deployments.
Concise monthly summary for 2025-09 (giellalt/lang-sma). Delivered substantive lexical improvements and policy-aligned updates, enhancing NLP accuracy and compliance for SMA language processing. The work focused on expanding coverage, improving tagging/morphology, and maintaining a clean lexicon suitable for production deployments.
June 2025 (2025-06) – Giellalt/lang-sma: Delivered SMA-specific spellchecking tooling, stabilized Gramcheck workflow, and completed essential maintenance. Key impact includes restoring Gramcheck compilation by addressing lexicon issues, enabling faster QA cycles, and aligning licensing metadata. The work unblocks critical workflows, improves spellchecking reliability for SMA, and establishes scripting/documentation foundations for faster lemma handling and suggestion-speed testing.
June 2025 (2025-06) – Giellalt/lang-sma: Delivered SMA-specific spellchecking tooling, stabilized Gramcheck workflow, and completed essential maintenance. Key impact includes restoring Gramcheck compilation by addressing lexicon issues, enabling faster QA cycles, and aligning licensing metadata. The work unblocks critical workflows, improves spellchecking reliability for SMA, and establishes scripting/documentation foundations for faster lemma handling and suggestion-speed testing.
April 2025 monthly summary for giellalt/lang-sma focused on expanding lexical resources and improving grammar-checker data documentation and organization. Delivered key features to enhance language coverage and research workflows, including: expanded lexicon with new lemmas, nouns, adverbs, conjunctions, and noun stems; comprehensive documentation updates for grammar-checker resources, error-type classifications, and linguistic notes; updated file-path references and annotations to improve maintainability and onboarding. No major bugs fixed this month; emphasis on data quality, documentation, and collaboration readiness to support scalable NLP development and research.
April 2025 monthly summary for giellalt/lang-sma focused on expanding lexical resources and improving grammar-checker data documentation and organization. Delivered key features to enhance language coverage and research workflows, including: expanded lexicon with new lemmas, nouns, adverbs, conjunctions, and noun stems; comprehensive documentation updates for grammar-checker resources, error-type classifications, and linguistic notes; updated file-path references and annotations to improve maintainability and onboarding. No major bugs fixed this month; emphasis on data quality, documentation, and collaboration readiness to support scalable NLP development and research.
Monthly performance summary for 2025-03 focused on delivering data-quality improvements and feature enhancements in the giellalt/lang-sma repository. Key outcomes include the delivery of lemma creation and semantic tagging, extended tagging coverage for missing entries, and targeted cleanup to stabilize datasets. Additional work consolidated lemma-arbeid efforts, improved lemmatization and proper nouns handling, and refreshed documentation and metadata to support maintainability and downstream NLP tasks. The work demonstrates strong data curation, encoding discipline, and incremental improvements aligned with project goals.
Monthly performance summary for 2025-03 focused on delivering data-quality improvements and feature enhancements in the giellalt/lang-sma repository. Key outcomes include the delivery of lemma creation and semantic tagging, extended tagging coverage for missing entries, and targeted cleanup to stabilize datasets. Additional work consolidated lemma-arbeid efforts, improved lemmatization and proper nouns handling, and refreshed documentation and metadata to support maintainability and downstream NLP tasks. The work demonstrates strong data curation, encoding discipline, and incremental improvements aligned with project goals.
February 2025 accomplishments for giellalt/lang-sma: delivered substantial lexical and annotation enhancements. Key features include lemma ingestion from external lexicons (Gg/GG) and creation of entries for terms like Orre testamente; semantic tagging applied to lemmas to enrich linguistic annotations; moteref markup support added to lemma data; subject-verb Kongruense markup implemented with error-type tagging; MWE expression corrections to ensure accuracy and ongoing maintenance for lemmas and missing-list consistency. Business impact includes improved data quality and consistency for downstream NLP tasks, expanded lexicon coverage with new proper nouns and spelling updates, and better maintainability through documentation and code cleanup. Technologies/skills demonstrated include linguistic data engineering, semantic tagging, markup/annotation, version control hygiene, and data maintenance across a Greek? language domain; cross-functional collaboration.
February 2025 accomplishments for giellalt/lang-sma: delivered substantial lexical and annotation enhancements. Key features include lemma ingestion from external lexicons (Gg/GG) and creation of entries for terms like Orre testamente; semantic tagging applied to lemmas to enrich linguistic annotations; moteref markup support added to lemma data; subject-verb Kongruense markup implemented with error-type tagging; MWE expression corrections to ensure accuracy and ongoing maintenance for lemmas and missing-list consistency. Business impact includes improved data quality and consistency for downstream NLP tasks, expanded lexicon coverage with new proper nouns and spelling updates, and better maintainability through documentation and code cleanup. Technologies/skills demonstrated include linguistic data engineering, semantic tagging, markup/annotation, version control hygiene, and data maintenance across a Greek? language domain; cross-functional collaboration.
January 2025 summary for giellalt/lang-sma: Delivered comprehensive Sámi Lexicon and Morphology Maintenance with resource enhancements across noun, proper noun, verb, and adverb lexicons. Implemented corrections, refactors, and new resource files; fixed a crash in the dåarjege lexicon; added MISSING_List_24 data; introduced ABSOLUT_NORMERT resources and a dictionary generation script. These changes expand lexical coverage, improve data quality, and stabilize resource generation, enabling downstream dictionary production and language tooling. Technologies demonstrated include data-driven resource maintenance, scripting for dictionary generation, lemma management, and crash debugging. Business value includes higher resource accuracy, reduced runtime risk, and accelerated readiness for future updates.
January 2025 summary for giellalt/lang-sma: Delivered comprehensive Sámi Lexicon and Morphology Maintenance with resource enhancements across noun, proper noun, verb, and adverb lexicons. Implemented corrections, refactors, and new resource files; fixed a crash in the dåarjege lexicon; added MISSING_List_24 data; introduced ABSOLUT_NORMERT resources and a dictionary generation script. These changes expand lexical coverage, improve data quality, and stabilize resource generation, enabling downstream dictionary production and language tooling. Technologies demonstrated include data-driven resource maintenance, scripting for dictionary generation, lemma management, and crash debugging. Business value includes higher resource accuracy, reduced runtime risk, and accelerated readiness for future updates.
December 2024 – Data provisioning for morphology ingestion in giellalt/lang-sma. Delivered a new incoming binary DOCX for the Gielegaaltije_2024 morphology dataset, expanding coverage for the 2024 dataset. No code changes were required; the work focused on data asset provisioning and repository hygiene, with full traceability via the commit 526d38bc157fe5f5a796580540ee6035186142d4 ("Liste fra Gielegaaltije"). No bugs fixed this period; primary impact is enabling downstream processing and improved data readiness.
December 2024 – Data provisioning for morphology ingestion in giellalt/lang-sma. Delivered a new incoming binary DOCX for the Gielegaaltije_2024 morphology dataset, expanding coverage for the 2024 dataset. No code changes were required; the work focused on data asset provisioning and repository hygiene, with full traceability via the commit 526d38bc157fe5f5a796580540ee6035186142d4 ("Liste fra Gielegaaltije"). No bugs fixed this period; primary impact is enabling downstream processing and improved data readiness.
In November 2024, the team delivered a focused lexicon enhancement for transcription in the giellalt/lang-sma repository, expanding vocabulary to improve automation and recognition of domain terms. Specifically, added an abbreviation mapping: 'st.meld.' maps to 'stoerredigkebïevnese', enabling accurate recognition of this term during transcription. The change is tracked by the commit 0b119f5df3ec154c852242c2759c01425fd1bffc with message 'added t´stoerredigkiebïevnese´to transcriptor' for traceability. No major bugs were fixed in this period. Overall, this work improves transcription accuracy, reduces manual corrections, and sets the foundation for further lexicon growth in giellalt/lang-sma.
In November 2024, the team delivered a focused lexicon enhancement for transcription in the giellalt/lang-sma repository, expanding vocabulary to improve automation and recognition of domain terms. Specifically, added an abbreviation mapping: 'st.meld.' maps to 'stoerredigkebïevnese', enabling accurate recognition of this term during transcription. The change is tracked by the commit 0b119f5df3ec154c852242c2759c01425fd1bffc with message 'added t´stoerredigkiebïevnese´to transcriptor' for traceability. No major bugs were fixed in this period. Overall, this work improves transcription accuracy, reduces manual corrections, and sets the foundation for further lexicon growth in giellalt/lang-sma.
Month: 2024-10 — Focused on improving transcription abbreviation handling in giellalt/lang-sma. Delivered Transcription Abbreviation Expansion Updates by revising the lexc file to extend abbreviations and their text expansions, improving accuracy and coverage of abbreviation handling in the transcription system. Change implemented with commit ecba8c2ddb3fecd9588127b0866840ce7dab6358 (message: "lagt til noen ABBR").
Month: 2024-10 — Focused on improving transcription abbreviation handling in giellalt/lang-sma. Delivered Transcription Abbreviation Expansion Updates by revising the lexc file to extend abbreviations and their text expansions, improving accuracy and coverage of abbreviation handling in the transcription system. Change implemented with commit ecba8c2ddb3fecd9588127b0866840ce7dab6358 (message: "lagt til noen ABBR").
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