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 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 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 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 $136,969 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports an interdisciplinary research project at the interface of philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. The project aims to empirically study the complex interactions between human translation and machine translation, with the goal of nurturing the next generation of translation specialists. The project combines a...
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...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project Grant to Artimatic Technologies, Inc. to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology for automated 3D content creation. The goal is to create tools that enable experienced animators to rapidly produce high-quality 3D content and allow novices to create engaging 3D graphics without extensive technical training. The project will utilize deep neural networks to generate 3D models...
This $353,434 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project titled "Many Languages, One Network: Cross-Linguistic Semantic Priming Effects in 45 Languages and Large Language Models". The project, awarded to Harrisburg University of Science & Technology, aims to build a large-scale dataset to understand how recognizing one word can improve recognition of another...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $274,920 to Arclet LLC aims to enhance public health communication by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies. The project seeks to develop a scalable platform that enables health communicators to create, customize, and measure the effectiveness of health messages tailored to diverse cultural and linguistic contexts. Key...