User:Rueter

Jack Rueter, originally form Kent, Wa. USA, has a M.A. in Finno-Ugrian studies at the University of Helsinki, and has taught Finnish for six years at the Mordovian State University, in Saransk, Mordovia, Russian Federation, 1998-2004. On December 11, 2010, Jack Rueter defended his discertation "Adnominal Person in the Morphological System of Erzya" in the General Linguistics section of the Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki. Presently, he is studying and working in Finland with interests in Finno-Ugrian languages and minority language retention through text corpus work and Information technology, especially, open-source finite-state transducers for morphological parsing, spell checking and machine translation. Other affiliations include the Finno-Ugrian Society, language technology, HFST, at the University of Helsinki, Komi parsing at the University of Tromsø, Norway, and the Syktyvkar State University, Komi Republic, Russian Federation.