Arvi_Hurskainen
Arvi Johannes Hurskainen (born January 25, 1941, in Kitee) is a Finnish scholar of language technology and linguistics. Since 1985 he has developed rule-based language technology mainly for Swahili, but also for other languages, including machine translation from English to Finnish. He has created a development environment called SALAMA (acronym for Swahili Language Manager), but it suits to any language. The major applications developed so far include the following: the spell checker for Swahili,[1] the annotator of corpus texts,[2] an advanced dictionary between Swahili and English [3] and translators [4] from Swahili to English, from English to Swahili, and from English to Finnish. He has also developed an advanced learning system for Swahili[5] and a system for producing targeted vocabularies for language learners.[2] Hurskainen has compiled two annotated corpora, Helsinki Corpus of Swahili 1.0 and Helsinki Corpus of Swahili 2.0.[6]