21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Arppe, Antti

• SSHRC PG awarded 2019: In response to the well-documented threats to Indigenous cultures and languages, this Partnership project will support the revitalization and sustained daily use of multiple Indigenous languages by developing modern technological tools and resources for these languages in collaboration with their respective communities; namely, Plains Cree and Tsuut'ina. Partnerships are with the Maskwacîs Education and Schools Commission (MESC) and the Tsuut'ina Office of the Language Commissioner (TOLC). Our team of documentary and computational linguists, as well as Indigenous communities, will develop a range of essential software resources and applications, including: (1) web-based dictionaries, (2) searchable databases of spoken recordings and written texts, (3) spell checkers, and (4) computer-aided language learning applications.

• Date created

  2018-10-29

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Language Revitalization
  • Digital Database
  • PG
  • Dene Languages
  • Algonquian Languages
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Lexicon
  • Morphology
  • Successful SSHRC
  • On-Line Collections of Speech and Text
  • Web-based Dictionary
  • Computers and Language
  • Language Technology
  • Lexicography
  • Language
  • Computer-Aided Language Learning
  • Indigenous
  • Partnership
  • Canada
  • On-Line Dictionary
  • Information Technology
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Literacy
  • Spell-Checkers
  • Language Acquisition
  • 2019

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-a4gj-v195

• License

  © Arppe, Antti. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.