This EAGER Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to develop new natural language processing tools for an endangered language. The $296,804 project, awarded on September 15, 2024 to the University of Hawaii, will first collect and consolidate existing texts and dictionaries, then train machine translation systems and language models to translate materials into and out of the endangered language. The project will also investigate methods to establish a consistent orthography for the language. This work will directly benefit the endangered language speaker community and serve as a case study for applying language technologies to preserve and revitalize other low-resource and endangered languages globally.
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