Cultural Engagement and Recruitment of American Indian Males into Computer Science through Computational Linguistics

通过计算语言学对美国印第安男性进行文化参与和招募计算机科学

• 批准号: 1446997
• 负责人: IVORY TOLDSON
• 金额: $ 29.94万
• 依托单位: QUALITY EDUCATION FOR MINORITIES NETWORK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446997&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cultural; Engagement; Recruitment; American; Indian

The Tribal Colleges and Universities Program includes a focus on increasing the instructional capacity of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Desired impacts include attracting more indigenous students and minority male students into programs of study in these fields, thereby addressing underrepresentation on two fronts. The goal of this project is to enhance the understanding of computational linguistics while also increasing the number of declared computer science majors among American Indian males at the participating institutions. The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network will investigate the effects of collaborative computational linguistics research projects on the recruitment and retention of American Indian males into computer science. Under the proposed activity, QEM will recruit five-person teams (one computer science faculty member and four male computer science students) from six tribal colleges with existing computer science or information technology programs. QEM will host a two-day training and leadership development workshop, during which participating teams will learn basic theory and applications of computational linguistics to indigenous languages. At the workshop, students will collaborate and decide on projects to undertake upon return to their respective campuses. To increase collaboration during the academic year, the cohort of schools will include pairs of tribal colleges whose founding tribes speak each of three languages (Algonquian language family, Navajo language, Sioux language). Participating teams will share their research results, project benefits, and lessons learned at a follow-up workshop, where they also will discuss dissemination, recruitment, and sustainability strategies to expand interest among American Indian males in computational linguistics and computer science overall.

部落学院和大学计划的重点是提高部落学院和大学(TCU)在科学、数学、工程和技术方面的教学能力。预期的影响包括吸引更多的土著学生和少数族裔男性学生参加这些领域的学习方案，从而解决两个方面代表性不足的问题。该项目的目标是加强对计算语言学的理解，同时也增加参与机构的美国印第安人男性中申报的计算机科学专业的人数。少数民族优质教育(QEM)网络将调查协作计算语言学研究项目对招募和留住美国印第安人男性进入计算机科学的影响。根据拟议的活动，QEM将从现有计算机科学或信息技术专业的六所部落学院招聘五人团队(一名计算机科学教员和四名男性计算机科学专业学生)。QEM将举办为期两天的培训和领导力发展研讨会，在此期间，参赛队将学习计算语言学的基本理论和土著语言的应用。在工作坊上，学生们将合作并决定返回各自校园后要开展的项目。为了在学年期间加强合作，学校将包括成对的部落学院，它们的创始部落都说三种语言(阿尔冈昆语系、纳瓦霍语、苏语)。参与团队将在后续研讨会上分享他们的研究成果、项目收益和经验教训，他们还将讨论传播、招聘和可持续发展战略，以提高美国印第安人男性对计算语言学和计算机科学的整体兴趣。