Block Grant H982300810255

This Project Grant award, totaling $448,129, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084). The grant will fund the collaborative research project "REDDDOT PHASE 2: INCLUSIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES" conducted by the Trustees of Indiana University. The project aims to create training datasets, predominantly optimized for speech recognition (speech-to-text), for three underrepresented...

This Project Grant award of $268,067, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), supports the development of advanced speech technologies to advance linguistic research. Key activities include: Developing benchmark datasets, comprehensive lexica, and implementing advanced data processing techniques such as tokenization, lemmatization, and part-of-speech tagging for critical languages. These resources will be made...

This Project Grant award of $340,217.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of innovative tools based on AI large language models (LLMs) to help individuals with limited majority-language proficiency improve their language abilities for effective information seeking. The project, led by the University of Maryland, College Park, will empower users to design their own personalized digital...

The Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island was awarded a $186,608 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Indian Education National Activities (State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) and Native American Language (NAL)) program (CFDA 84.415) to support the project "ALASKA'S LINGUISTIC TAPESTRY: PRESERVING AND PROMOTING UNANGAM TUNUU." The award, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will be used to preserve, promote, and revitalize the Unangam Tunuu...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is for the development of an Intelligent Language Learning Environment platform by Pangea Chat LLC. The project aims to create a novel language learning solution grounded in learning science and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to make language learning more accessible, inclusive, and socially engaging. Key product goals include...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $358,451 Project Grant to Painted Desert Demonstration Projects, Inc. (doing business as The Star School) in Flagstaff, Arizona. The grant, part of the Indian Education National Activities (State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) and Native American Language (NAL)) program (CFDA 84.415), will fund a project titled "DINE BIZAAD BEE OLT'A BIYI HOZHO'O OH'HO'AAH': INTEGRATING DINE LANGUAGE INTO ALL OF...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $299,963 aims to destigmatize disfluencies in speech artificial intelligence (AI) by partnering with the grassroots stuttering community organization "StammerTalk". The key objectives are to: (a) develop metrics, tools, and techniques to measure and address fluency biases in existing automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, and (b) study StammerTalk's...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program will create crucial training datasets, predominantly optimized for speech recognition (speech-to-text), for three underrepresented American sociolinguistic contexts: a sociolect, a code-switching language context, and an indigenous language. The $1,051,622 award to the Mozilla Foundation, with a period of performance from Oct 1, 2024 to Apr 25, 2025, will...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to ESM Global Productions, LLC to develop an advanced AI-powered translation platform for African languages. This 2-year project aims to create a robust database and novel machine learning models to significantly enhance translation accuracy and nuance for underrepresented African languages, addressing a critical gap in current technology....

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...