Focus on computational linguistics endangered languages Executive Director of 7000 Languages connect communities with the technology to teach learn and revive their languages www7000org ID: 737786
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About Me
Alexa LittleBA: Yale 2016, LinguisticsFocus on computational linguistics, endangered languagesExecutive Director of 7000 Languages
“connect communities with the technology to teach, learn, and revive their languages”
www.7000.orgSlide2
The Digital Divide
7099 languages spoken worldwide…140 languages in Microsoft Word
(< 2%)102 languages on Google Translate (< 1.5%)47
languages supported on Android
(< 1%)
31 languages supported on iOS (< 0.5%)Slide3
Why it matters:
Historical contextCommunity healthEducational outcomesCultural heritageScienceEqualitySlide4
What can we do?
Archives Data
Technology
Digitization
Data Science,
Computer ScienceSlide5
2015: The Cherokee Singing BookSlide6Slide7Slide8
No Cherokee support in Sibelius… future work?
Translation assisted by Tom Belt, Hartwell Francis
Full score and each part can be extracted as PDF, played as midi/mp3Slide9Slide10
2017: The Kilpatrick Collection
(Proof of Concept)Slide11Slide12Slide13Slide14Slide15Slide16Slide17Slide18
Important Considerations
ConsentAccess protocolsBenefits to communityUsability / designCollaborations with data scientists, teachers, linguists, students!
Volunteers & citizen science