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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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Presentation at HCI International 2022
Looking forward to speaking at the HCI International 2022 Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden today and presenting my new paper Say It Right: AI Neural Machine Translation Empowers New Speakers to Revitalize Lemko during session S143: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence Applications on Language Text and Speech Related Tasks. Paper in conference proceedings: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-05643-7_37 Please cite as:Orynycz, P.…
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Say It Right: AI Neural Machine Translation Empowers New Speakers To Revitalize Lemko (2022)
Abstract Artificial-intelligence powered neural machine translation might soon resuscitate endangered languages by empowering new speakers to communicate in real time using sentences quantifiably closer to the literary norm than those of native speakers, and starting from day one of their language reclamation journey. While Silicon Valley has been investing enormous resources into neural translation technology…
