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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…
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More Indigenous language knowledge, less diabetes
Did you know? After adjustment for socio-economic factors, diabetes is significantly less prevalent in communities with more cultural continuity as measured by traditional Indigenous language knowledge (Oster et al., 2014, p. 9). Work cited: Oster et al.: Cultural continuity, traditional Indigenous language, and diabetes in Alberta First Nations: a mixed methods study. International Journal for…
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Lemko черевікы ⟨čerevikŷ⟩ ‘shoes’
The Lemko word черевікы ⟨čerevikŷ⟩ means shoes in English, черевики ⟨čerevyky⟩ in Standard Ukrainian, and buty in Polish.
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Lemko авто ⟨avto⟩ ‘car’
The neuter Lemko noun авто ⟨avto⟩ means car or automobile in English and auto or samochód in Polish. The accent is on the first syllable.
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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…
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Lemko земля ⟨zemlja⟩ ‘earth’
Learn how to translate, pronounce, memorize, and use the Lemko noun земля ⟨zemlja⟩ ‘earth’. With etymology and comprehensive references.
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Lemko рік ⟨rik⟩ ‘year’
Learn the meaning, origin and declension of Lemko рік ⟨rik⟩ ‘year’, plus how to memorize it.
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Lemko Demonstrative Pronouns
Learn the translation, etymology, and standardized declension of the Lemko demonstrative pronouns ⟨tot⟩ “this” and ⟨tamtot⟩ “that”.
