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

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。期望的影响包括吸引更多的土著学生和少数民族男性学生进入这些领域的学习项目，从而解决两个方面的代表性不足问题。该项目的目标是提高对计算语言学的理解，同时增加参与机构的美国印第安男性中宣布主修计算机科学的人数。少数民族素质教育（QEM）网络将调查协同计算语言学研究项目对美国印第安男性进入计算机科学的招募和保留的影响。根据拟议的活动，QEM将从六所现有计算机科学或信息技术专业的部落学院招募五人小组（一名计算机科学教员和四名男性计算机科学学生）。QEM将举办为期两天的培训和领导力发展工作坊，在此期间，参赛团队将学习计算语言学在土著语言中的基本理论和应用。在研讨会上，学生们将合作并决定回到各自的校园后进行的项目。为了在学年期间加强合作，这批学校将包括两对部落学院，这些学院的创始部落分别使用三种语言（阿尔冈昆语系、纳瓦霍语、苏族语）。参与小组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，并讨论传播、招聘和可持续发展战略，以扩大美国印第安男性对计算语言学和计算机科学的兴趣。

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.