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 $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...
This $256,800 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) is funding the development of a holistic system for comprehensive student assessment. The goal is to leverage AI and natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyze diverse student learning data, including essays, written assignments, and reflections, to provide educators with real-time, detailed insights on student progress. This will...
This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $303,226 to develop an innovative, AI-powered platform for interactive language learning targeted at young children. The project aims to create an adaptive system that personalizes speech and language activities based on each child's progress, integrating advanced phoneme recognition algorithms and machine learning...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to Talk Coaches Inc. to develop an AI-powered feedback system for enhancing literacy and creative thinking skills for students in grades 3-8. The project, titled "AI-Enhanced Feedback to Accelerate Literacy, Creativity, and Student Engagement," aims to transform the English language learning experience and improve reading and writing...
This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products that enable humans to interact and converse with books and other documents. The key products being developed include: Technology to represent the informational content of books and document discussions as a knowledge graph, which will then be used to ground large...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project aims to develop a universal natural language processing (NLP) model designed specifically for low-resourced languages. The primary technical objective is to create an NLP model capable of handling unique linguistic features, leveraging limited data, and incorporating cultural and contextual nuances to reduce language barriers and increase...
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 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 National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a hybrid dialogue system architecture combining symbolic and neural approaches. The two-year project beginning August 2022 will explore new inference mechanisms blending an explicitly designed dialogue manager module with effective neural encoder/decoder models. A symbolic dialogue manager will...