Rolando A. Coto Solano (Dartmouth) - Using Artificial Intelligence for Language Documentation
Channel: Nathan Hill
Date: 22/04/2023

Using Artificial Intelligence for Language Documentation
Lecture by Prof. Rolando A. Coto Solano (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
17:00–18:00
Brunei Gallery, B204
 
Artificial intelligence techniques can help us accelerate our documention work even in languages with very few resources. We will focus on breaking the transcription bottleneck by discussing how current cross-lingual speech recognition, bootstrapping off of large languages like English, can facilitate the task of transcription in the field. We will also examine how techniques such as automated parsing and machine translation can help compile language corpora. We will also look at the impact that technologies can have in language revitalization, and how even simple tools like predictive keyboards can help in the creation of language resources. The talk will present two test cases, the languages Bribri from Costa Rica and Cook Islands Māori from Polynesia.