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category: Poster Session: 6 December Session P4: African Languages Poster Session
Abstract: While Language Technologies promote digital linguistic diversity and community development through access to knowledge, such technologies rely upon datasets absent in most indigenous languages. The LanguageARC Citizen Linguist portal augments traditional sources of language data by empowering indigenous communities to create their own. Via brief, engaging tasks such as picture and video description, vocabulary elicitation and usage surveys that can be completed on a computer or smart phone, indigenous communities collect spoken or written data as appropriate, and augment it by transcribing, translating, judging grammaticality and annotating for use in technology development and language development.
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