The Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Program
Assigned Room at the ACL Conference: Balboa C
TIME
TITLE
AUTHORS/PRESENTERS
9:00-9:30
Introduction
9:30-9:50
The Missing Middle: Language Documentation Needs Better Infrastructure, Not Better Models
Luke Gessler, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Sandra Auderset, Timotheus Bodt, Shobhana Chelliah, Sebastien J. Christian, Maxime Fily, Santiago Herrera, Eva Huber, Sharid Loaiciga, Marieke Meelen, Robert Östling, Alexis Palmer and Eline Visser
9:50-10:10
Revitalising Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage through Language Technology: A Pilot Study for Dzardzongke
Hannah M. Claus, Songbo Hu, Emre Isik, Anna Korhonen, Kitty Wenying Liu and Marieke Meelen
10:10-10:30
Indigenous Writing Systems Matter: Rethinking NLP beyond Alphabetic Bias through Script-Aware Modeling
Ngoc Tan Le, Mamady Traore, Cristian Eduardo Ahumada Oliva and Fatiha Sadat
10:30-11.00
BREAK
11:00-11:20
AvarLab: An Integrated Digital Ecosystem for Avar, a Morphologically Rich Low-Resource Language
Kebed Zagidov and Thomas Brochhagen
11:20-11:40
Morphological Parsing for Media Lengua: When Accessibility Matters More Than State-of-the-Art
Jesse Stewart and Olga Kriukova
11:40-12:30
LUNCH
12:30-13:30
POSTERS
13:30-13:50
Choosing an ASR model for Dënë Sųłıné: Navigating polysynthesis and unstandardized orthography
Olga Kriukova, Antti Arppe and Olga Lovick
13:50-14:10
Bottlenecks of In-Context Learning for Fieldwork ASR: A Case-study of Panãra
Siyu Liang, Myriam Lapierre and Gina-Anne Levow
14:10-14:30
Addressing Domain Mismatch in ASR for Akuzipik Language Documentation
Summer Chambers, Sylvia L.R. Woodrose Schwartz, Matthew C. Kelley and Lane Woodrose Schwartz
14:30-14:50
Speech Recognition and Synthesis Technologies Applied to Preservation and Revitalization of the Ainu Language
Tatsuya Kawahara and Kohei Matsuura
14:50-15:10
Voices from the Margins: Modeling Linguistic Diversity in Spontaneous Speech for Low-Resource Languages
Vitthal Bhandari, Tiya Kumar and Katharine Mulhern
15:10-15:30
Child Support: Leveraging Lexifiers Resources to Support Creoles ASR
Éric Le Ferrand and Fabiola Henri
15:30-16:00
BREAK
16:00-16:20
An Interactive System for Generating Revisable Grammar Lessons for Extremely Low-Resource Languages Without Expert Annotation
Sebastien J. Christian
16:20-16:50
Annotation Tools for Language Documentation: A Survey of Capabilities, Gaps, and Morphological Support
Changbing Yang, PT Anderson, Godfred Agyapong and Sarah Moeller
16:50-17:00
Conclusion
POSTER
TITLE
AUTHORS/PRESENTERS
1
Low-Resource Methods for Hawaiian Machine Translation
nolan brophy and Winston Wu
2
Voice Activation Detection for Transcription of Indigenous Languages
Rolando Coto-Solano, Mikaela Browning, Thomas Corrado and Sally Akevai Tenamu Nicholas
3
Aspects of Selecting the Right ASR Training Languages for Under-Resourced Languages
J. Elizabeth Liebl, Summer Chambers, Matthew C. Kelley and Géraldine Walther
4
Developing A Hawaiian Corpus Toolkit for Data-Driven Language Learning
Joseph Winkie, Michol Malia Miller and Winston Wu
5
Digital posters: Publishing Gurindji plant and animal poster content as websites using an open-source template-based RO-Crate preview tool
Ben Foley, Abigail Davis and Felicity Meakins
6
CoRSAL-OCR: Evaluating Zero-Shot OCR for Language Archive Materials
