The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software

no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain D{\'e}silets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennat{\'e}kha, Akwirat{\'e}kha{'} Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyeht{\'e}nhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Beno{\^\i}t Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, Heather Souter

This paper surveys the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in Canada in preserving their languages and extending their use.

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A Summary of the First Workshop on Language Technology for Language Documentation and Revitalization

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Graham Neubig, Shruti Rijhwani, Alexis Palmer, Jordan MacKenzie, Hilaria Cruz, Xinjian Li, Matthew Lee, Aditi Chaudhary, Luke Gessler, Steven Abney, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Olga Zamaraeva, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Jennette Child, Sara Child, Rebecca Knowles, Sarah Moeller, Jeffrey Micher, Yiyuan Li, Sydney Zink, Mengzhou Xia, Roshan S Sharma, Patrick Littell

Despite recent advances in natural language processing and other language technology, the application of such technology to language documentation and conservation has been limited.