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Winning Hearts & Tongues: A Polish to Lemko Case Study (2023)
When minority and local languages are lost, national security suffers: not only are significant increases in suicidality, depression, diabetes, assault, and substance abuse often documented, a void is created that has historically been exploited by adversaries. For example, millions from minority language communities ahistorically assume the Russian language and/or identity as their own…
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Dr. Anna Szlávi: Language & Computer Science for the Minoritized
I spoke with Gender in Tech expert Dr. Anna Szlávi about the surprising minority and minoritized dialect situation in Norway, bridging linguistics and computer science and empowering others to do so, Europe’s EUGAIN and STEM-UP projects, gendered pronouns and politics in Hungary, and how artificial intelligence and natural language processing engineers should approach gender in…
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BLEU Skies for Endangered Language Revitalization: Lemko Rusyn and Ukrainian Neural AI Translation Accuracy Soars (2023)
Abstract Accelerating global language loss, associated with elevated incidence of illicit substance use, type 2 diabetes, binge drinking, and assault, as well as sixfold higher youth suicide rates, poses a mounting challenge for minority, Indigenous, refugee, colonized, and immigrant communities. In environments where intergenerational transmission is often disrupted, artificial intelligence neural machine translation systems have…