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Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

The Endangered Language Fund, Inc. received a $251,929 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to develop an indigenous language database project. Through this three-year award ending in August 2026, the Endangered Language Fund will compile invaluable language resources for an endangered Native American language. These include a grammar, dictionary, collection of oral literature translated and analyzed, and...

The National Science Foundation awarded Langinnov Inc. a $898,537 cooperative agreement from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2023 under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The award will support Langinnov's development of a bilingual literacy assessment and skill tracker tool. As part of its mission to improve engineering innovation and education, the NSF Engineering program aims to foster technological advances with the potential to enhance economic strength and quality...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $449,712 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to document and analyze endangered language varieties spoken in a linguistically diverse border region as part of the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program (CFDA 47.075, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences). The award period is from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to ESM Global Productions, LLC to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled database for accurately translating African languages. The project aims to create a first-of-its-kind solution to address the lack of accurate translation tools for diverse African languages, which have traditionally been underserved by Western technology companies. The AI-enabled database will be...

The Pennsylvania State University received a $3 million project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on September 1, 2021. The five-year grant will support the Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan project to transform training and advance human-technology interaction through research on linguistic diversity. As part of the NSF's mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund the development of an intelligent language learning environment by Pangea Chat LLC. The company will create a machine learning solution to support conversation-based foreign language education. The system will analyze student text chats to identify learning objectives and automatically generate practice activities. It aims to increase student confidence and engagement in initial conversations...

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...

The Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development federal grant program (CFDA 15.032) to conduct the "Koo At Latouwx Has Naxsatee, Let Them Be Teachers" project from June 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The primary goal of the project is to increase the Tlingit language proficiency of 10 Tlingit language teachers through 116 total...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $299,977 to Trustees of Indiana University to develop five new syntactically-annotated corpora of endangered languages. The project aims to build high-quality datasets and computational tools for analyzing the grammars of these languages, validating new techniques that can work with small datasets. The key products include: (1) five freely-available treebanks...