This project is funded by the European Union.

Toolkit for marginalized and under-resourced languages

In this document we cover the role of technology, with a focus on artificial intelligence-based technology, on the preservation of endangered languages.

This is a living document that was created as part of the project “Judeo-Spanish: Connecting the two ends of the Mediterranean” carried out by Col·lectivaT and Sephardic Center of Istanbul (SKAD) within the framework of the “Grant Scheme for Common Cultural Heritage: Preservation and Dialogue between Turkey and the EU–II (CCH-II)” implemented by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey with the financial support of the European Union.

Note

This document is also available in Turkish and Spanish.

Bu doküman Türkçe de erişilebilir.

Este documento también está disponible en español.

Contents

• Introduction
  • Who is this document for?
  • Can I contribute?
  • Authors
• Languages and the digital age
  • Digital extinction
  • Online presence of a language
  • Language documentation projects
  • “Traditional” technology
• Data-driven language technologies
  • Machine translation
  • Automatic speech recognition
  • Text-to-speech
• Language data
  • Text corpus
  • Parallel data (bitext)
  • Speech corpus
• Case studies
  • Judeo-Spanish: Connecting the two ends of the Mediterranean
  • Grassroots NLP communities
  • Common Voice campaigns
  • Other initiatives
• Good practices

License

This document is licensed with Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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