Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes

P Littell, A Kazantseva, R Kuhn, A Pine… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this article, we discuss which text, speech, and image technologies have been developed,
and would be feasible to develop, for the approximately 60 Indigenous languages spoken in …

[PDF][PDF] Indigenous language technologies: Anti-colonial oases in a colonizing (digital) world

NT Brinklow - WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous …, 2021 - journals.uvic.ca
Abstract Language technologies are an increasingly common part of daily life for people
around the world. Millions of users per day access services like Google Translate and …

OCR evaluation tools for the 21st century

EA Santos - Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational …, 2019 - journals.colorado.edu
We introduce ocreval, a port of the ISRI OCR Evaluation Tools, now with Unicode support.
We describe how we upgraded the ISRI OCR Evaluation Tools to support modern text …

Gi2Pi Rule-based, index-preserving grapheme-to-phoneme transformations

A Pine, PW Littell, E Joanis, DH Daines… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the motivation and implementation details for a rule-based, index-
preserving grapheme-to-phoneme engine 'G i 2P i'implemented in pure Python and …

Syntactic Features and Text Types in 20th Century Plains Cree: A Constraint Grammar Approach

KM Schmirler - 2023 - era.library.ualberta.ca
This dissertation describes the creation of a morphosyntactically tagged corpus of Plains
Cree (nêhiyawêwin), an Indigenous language of North America, and demonstrates three …

Applications and innovations in typeface design for North American Indigenous languages

J Schillo, M Turin - Book 2.0, 2020 - intellectdiscover.com
In this contribution, we draw attention to prevailing issues that many speakers of Indigenous
North American languages face when typing their languages, and identify examples of …

ReadAlong Studio Web Interface for Digital Interactive Storytelling

A Pine, DH Daines, E Joanis, P Littell… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
We develop an interactive web-based user interface for performing textspeech alignment
and creating digital interactive “read-along audio books that highlight words as they are …

Kawennón: nis: the Wordmaker for Kanyen'kéha

A Kazantseva, OB Maracle, A Pine - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we describe preliminary work on Kawennón: nis, a verb conjugator for
Kanyen'kéha (Ohsweken dialect). The project is the result of a collaboration between …

Networks of support: How online resources are built, maintained, and adapted for community language revitalization needs at FirstVoices

B Chase, K Borland - 2022 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
FirstVoices is a technology-centered organization that works with forty-seven Indigenous
language communities around British Columbia. One of its top priorities is providing high …

Locally Contingent and Community-Dependent Tools and Technologies for Indigenous Language Mobilization

J Carpenter, A Guerin, M Kaczmarek… - … languages and the …, 2021 - books.google.com
The vitality and expression of language within communities is a key aspect of the
technoscape. Within Canada the concept of Indigenous communities is complex and …