Conference: Special Session on Language Technology at the 2024 Algonquian Conference

会议：2024 年阿尔冈昆会议语言技术特别会议

• 批准号: 2333919
• 负责人: Douglas Whalen
• 金额: $ 4.05万
• 依托单位: Endangered Language Fund, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333919&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Special; Session; Language; Technology

This award supports a special session on language technology in conjunction with the 56th Algonquian Conference. The session features speakers on using information technology to advance the study of endangered languages, providing insight into how technology, especially concerning archives, is making the analysis of language faster and more complete, especially for under-resourced languages. The session is important to fostering scientific collaboration between academic linguists and tribes that are in need of understanding the inner workings of their heritage languages. The ability to make better use of archives enhances the ability of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars alike to gain more insights about Native American languages and to advance language revitalization.There were more than 300 languages spoken in North America at the time of European contact. There are perhaps 50 language families that can be recognized for those languages, including the Algonquian family. All the families have different traits, but one consistent feature is the use of complex morphology and a greater importance of verbs than nouns compared to many other languages. These typological characteristics are very different from English and other languages that have been the subject of most work on language technology. Many recent advances in speech technology are therefore ill-equipped to address Native American languages. In addition, the amount of language material available in Native American languages is usually too restricted for the most common language tools. This session addresses these problems by presenting tools and techniques that scientists and community members can use to get access to archival material and to optimize how it is used. Although the Algonquian Conference is naturally centered on languages from that family, the tools and techniques presented at this special session are general to any language. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持与第56届阿尔冈琴会议一起举行的语言技术特别会议。该会议的特点是发言者使用信息技术来推进濒危语言的研究，深入了解技术，特别是有关档案的技术，如何使语言分析更快，更完整，特别是对资源不足的语言。会议对于促进学术语言学家和需要了解其遗产语言内部运作的部落之间的科学合作非常重要。更好地利用档案的能力提高了土著和非土著学者的能力，以获得更多关于美洲土著语言的见解，并促进语言振兴。在欧洲接触的时候，北美有300多种语言。这些语言可能有50个语系，包括阿尔冈琴语系。所有的语系都有不同的特点，但一个一致的特点是使用复杂的形态学，与许多其他语言相比，动词比名词更重要。这些类型学特征与英语和其他语言有很大的不同，而英语和其他语言一直是大多数语言技术工作的主题。因此，语音技术的许多最新进展都无法解决美洲土著语言的问题。此外，对于最常见的语言工具来说，美洲土著语言中可用的语言材料数量通常过于有限。本次会议通过介绍科学家和社区成员可以使用的工具和技术来解决这些问题，以获得档案材料并优化其使用方式。虽然阿尔冈琴会议自然以该语系的语言为中心，但在这次特别会议上提出的工具和技术对任何语言都是通用的。该奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为NSF动态语言基础设施- NEH记录濒危语言计划建立的资助伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。