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...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $449,534 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to document endangered languages through training and capacity building in diaspora communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Producing richly annotated, multipurpose language documentation materials to serve as the foundation for grammatical studies; 2) Conducting targeted studies of...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports the documentation and interdisciplinary study of three languages with unusual grammatical structures. The $244,516 award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, will result in the development of grammars, lexicons, and transcribed texts for these languages. The project leverages automatic speech recognition technologies and...
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 $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 $139,801 National Science Foundation project grant supports the University of Texas at Austin in documenting an endangered language variety spoken in rural villages. Over a two-year period ending June 2024, the university will interview native speakers to create a grammar of the traditional language and conduct detailed linguistic analysis. This work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to advance understanding of contact-driven linguistic...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $268,067 to develop advanced speech technologies and create educational resources for language research and learning. The project addresses critical language needs by leveraging automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and other speech technologies to bridge the gap between linguistic research and practical application. Key activities include developing...
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...