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DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.516 |
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Author | Search for: Kuhn, Roland1; Search for: Davis, Fineen1; Search for: Désilets, Alain1; Search for: Joanis, Eric1; Search for: Kazantseva, Anna1; Search for: Knowles, Rebecca1; Search for: Littell, Patrick1; Search for: Lothian, Delaney1; Search for: Pine, Aidan1; Search for: Running Wolf, Caroline1; Search for: Santos, Eddie1; Search for: Stewart, Darlene1; Search for: Boulianne, Gilles; Search for: Gupta, Vishwa; Search for: Maracle, Owennatékha Brian; Search for: Martin, Akwiratékha’; Search for: Cox, Christopher; Search for: Junker, Marie-Odile; Search for: Sammons, Olivia; Search for: Torkornoo, Delasie; Search for: Thanyehténhas Brinklow, Nathan; Search for: Child, Sara; Search for: Farley, Benoît; Search for: Huggins-Daines, David; Search for: Rosenblum, Daisy; Search for: Souter, Heather |
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Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. Digital Technologies
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Format | Text, Article |
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Conference | Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Dec. 8-13, 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Online) |
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Abstract | 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. The project aimed to work within the empowerment paradigm, where collaboration with communities and fulfillment of their goals is central. Since many of the technologies we developed were in response to community needs, the project ended up as a collection of diverse subprojects, including the creation of a sophisticated framework for building verb conjugators for highly inflectional polysynthetic languages (such as Kanyen’kéha, in the Iroquoian language family), release of what is probably the largest available corpus of sentences in a polysynthetic language (Inuktut) aligned with English sentences and experiments with machine translation (MT) systems trained on this corpus, free online services based on automatic speech recognition (ASR) for easing the transcription bottleneck for recordings of speech in Indigenous languages (and other languages), software for implementing text prediction and read-along audiobooks for Indigenous languages, and several other subprojects. |
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Publication date | 2020-12-13 |
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Date created | 2021-02-26 |
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Publisher | International Committee on Computational Linguistics |
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Place | Stroudsburg, PA, USA |
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Language | English |
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Peer reviewed | Yes |
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Record identifier | b0a9c380-4669-4475-b191-74d13433c11a |
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Record created | 2021-02-26 |
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Record modified | 2021-02-27 |
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