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BLEU Skies for Endangered Language Revitalization: Lemko Rusyn and Ukrainian Neural AI Translation Accuracy Soars
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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Winning Hearts & Tongues: A Polish to Lemko Case Study
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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Say It Right: AI Neural Machine Translation Empowers New Speakers To Revitalize Lemko
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…