1. Corpora of social media in minority Uralic languages
Timofey Arkhangelskiy
Universität Hamburg / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2. Middle-sized Uralic languages
Udmurt, Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak (Permic); Erzya, Moksha (Mordvinic); Hill and Meadow Mari
All still spoken by relatively many people, but endangered
Some digital presence, but not much; the largest part comes from 1-2 online newspapers for each language
What about social media?

3. Uralic social media
My project: download all (well, almost all) open social media texts in these languages and make corpora out of them
Udmurt, Erzya and Moksha are online, the rest will appear in 2019
All corpora have user metadata (anonymized/aggregated), morphological annotation and annotation of some lexical categories (Russian borrowings, animacy, etc.)

4. Uralic social media Long pipeline with lots of manual labor
Semi-manual search for URLs
Download through API, limited crawling
Automatic language detection
Anonymization, filtering / deduplication
Morphological annotation
Everything is published online through Tsakorpus corpus platform

5. Some observations
People write in these languages, but not much (less than 3M words per language over an 11- year span; less than 100 active users; less than sporadic users)
Different trends in different languages
Situation in Udmurt and Komi-Zyrian seems healthy
In Erzya, not quite so
Almost no texts in Moksha (14 thousand words)

6. Thank you for your attention!