Project Grant 1951923

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...

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...

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....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant awarded to the University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, will develop five new Universal Dependencies (UD) corpora of endangered languages totaling at least 30,000 tokens each. The $139,306 award, spanning August 2023 to July 2026, will produce: (1) freely-available, fully-annotated treebanks for quantitative linguistic analyses and natural language...

This $296,804 EAGER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of new natural language processing tools and language models for an endangered language. The project at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will first collect and consolidate language data, then train machine translation systems to translate text both into and out of the endangered language. The project will also investigate...

This $418,424 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program will fund the University of Oregon's project to collaboratively document an endangered indigenous language. The key products of this 3-year project include: 1) a crowdsourced digital quadrilingual dictionary created using the Living Dictionaries progressive web app, with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $391,927 to document the morphologically complex endangered language spoken by elders in a community where it is in contact with another indigenous language. The key objectives are to create a digital corpus capturing the naturalistic use of the endangered language by fluent elder speakers and to analyze the language's directional systems expressed...

This $285,326 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a 3-year community-driven documentation project focused on critically endangered, rarely studied, and infrequently documented languages. The project aims to produce transcribed and translated narratives in an open-access, permanently archived collection, develop a research-enriched, community-based interactive multimedia learning site, and conduct...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $249,315 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Regents of the University of Colorado (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) to establish a central, searchable, and lasting digital platform that provides accessibility to language resources and supports the development of AI models and documentation of endangered languages. The project seeks to gather and analyze linguistic data to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $457,997 to Indiana University to build a 1.4-million-word syntactically parsed electronic corpus spanning 900 years of a single language. The corpus will allow researchers to investigate grammatical change and variation over time, as well as enable comparisons to similar developments in related languages. The project involves manual annotation of...