Kevin Unhammer
CEO at The Apertium Project
Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway
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Top SchoolKevin Unhammer is a CEO and language engineering veteran with 17 years of experience building machine translation and localization solutions from Stavanger, Norway. He leads Trigram AS while contributing to the Apertium Project, specializing in shallow-transfer rule-based MT and Constraint Grammar for Scandinavian languages, including funded projects for Nynorsk and Northern Sámi. With an M.S. in Computational Linguistics and broad academic grounding in logic, NLP and AI from Norwegian and Dutch universities, he bridges linguistic theory and production software. Kevin is an active open-source localizer—his work on Mozilla’s Common Voice improving Norwegian Nynorsk strings underscores a commitment to language inclusion in major speech datasets. Colleagues count on him for pragmatic engineering of multilingual pipelines and for turning linguistic complexity into maintainable tools. Notably, his career blends sustained academic rigor with hands-on localization work that impacts both civic language resources and commercial offerings.
17 years of coding experience
University of OsloM.S., Computational Linguistics, M.S., Computational Linguistics at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)B.S., Cog.Sci., Computational Linguistics, B.S., Cog.Sci., Computational Linguistics at University of Bergen (UiB)Logic, Natural Language Processing, Cog.Sci., Logic, Natural Language Processing, Cog.Sci. at University of Amsterdam
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Github Skills (15)
internationalization10
localization10
crowdsourcing8
git6
windows6
nlp6
bash6
translation6
emacs6
ocaml6
ssh6
apertium6
haskell6
open-data5
voice4
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
common-voice/common-voice
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Common Voice is part of Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:9 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the localization efforts for the Common Voice project, specifically updating the Norwegian Nynorsk (nn-NO) translations. Their commits involve modifications to the `messages.ftl` file, which likely contains the text strings for the user interface. The changes include adding, updating, and correcting translations, ensuring the project is accessible to Norwegian Nynorsk speakers. The user frequently collaborated with other contributors on these localization updates.
internet-freedommachinesinitiativeopen-datavoice
unhammer/calendar-norway.el
May 2012 - Feb 2022
📆🇳🇴 Localise Emacs calendar to Norwegian
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 9 years 11 months
emacsnorwegiancalendarlocalise
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