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

该奖项支持在第56届阿尔冈昆会议期间举行一次关于语言技术的特别会议。会议上有发言者就如何利用信息技术推动濒危语言研究，深入了解技术，特别是与档案有关的技术如何使对语言的分析更快、更完整，特别是对资源不足的语言。这一会议对于促进学术语言学家和需要了解其传统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获得更多关于美洲土著语言的见解和推动语言复兴的能力。在欧洲接触时，北美有300多种语言。可能有50个语系可以被识别为这些语言，包括阿尔冈琴语系。所有的语系都有不同的特点，但有一个一致的特点是使用复杂的词法，与许多其他语言相比，动词比名词更重要。这些类型特征与英语和其他语言非常不同，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不足以解决美洲原住民语言的问题。此外，对于最常见的语言工具来说，美洲原住民语言的可用语言材料的数量通常过于有限。本次会议通过介绍科学家和社区成员可以用来获取档案材料并优化其使用方式的工具和技术来解决这些问题。虽然阿尔冈昆会议自然以该语系的语言为中心，但在本次特别会议上提出的工具和技术对任何语言都是通用的。这一奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为国家科学基金会动态语言基础设施-NEH记录濒危语言项目建立的资金合作伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.