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In deciding what to create for our final project, we settled on expanding our Navajo morphological transducer because of the potential benefits a working morphological transducer can bring to the speech community and the survival of the language. Navajo is currently classified as a threatened language, meaning its speech community is declining, as it is not being passed down. However, there are still roughly 7,000 monolingual speakers and roughly 150,000 total speakers. There is no better time for a tool like a morphological transducer because using the transducer, resources may be made, such as language learning apps, spellcheckers, and machine translation software, to stop the decline of the language and even encourage growth, with even possible future community input into its development, greatly improving it with native speakers' understanding of the language.
 
In deciding what to create for our final project, we settled on expanding our Navajo morphological transducer because of the potential benefits a working morphological transducer can bring to the speech community and the survival of the language. Navajo is currently classified as a threatened language, meaning its speech community is declining, as it is not being passed down. However, there are still roughly 7,000 monolingual speakers and roughly 150,000 total speakers. There is no better time for a tool like a morphological transducer because using the transducer, resources may be made, such as language learning apps, spellcheckers, and machine translation software, to stop the decline of the language and even encourage growth, with even possible future community input into its development, greatly improving it with native speakers' understanding of the language.
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==Past Work & Resources==
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Navajo has been extensively documented and studied, both by the community internally and by outside academics. Navajo speakers have produced resources such as dictionaries and bilingual translations of media, like a dub of the first Star Wars movie. Academics working with the community have produced large quantities of grammars, dictionaries, and papers covering the features of the language. These resources have been crucial to the development of our transducer and we believe, with the resources in existence and with the help of the community, the transducer could be among these invaluable resources for the language.
  
 
==Evaluation==
 
==Evaluation==
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== Github Links==
  
  
 
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Revision as of 12:53, 8 May 2022

Project Description

In deciding what to create for our final project, we settled on expanding our Navajo morphological transducer because of the potential benefits a working morphological transducer can bring to the speech community and the survival of the language. Navajo is currently classified as a threatened language, meaning its speech community is declining, as it is not being passed down. However, there are still roughly 7,000 monolingual speakers and roughly 150,000 total speakers. There is no better time for a tool like a morphological transducer because using the transducer, resources may be made, such as language learning apps, spellcheckers, and machine translation software, to stop the decline of the language and even encourage growth, with even possible future community input into its development, greatly improving it with native speakers' understanding of the language.

Past Work & Resources

Navajo has been extensively documented and studied, both by the community internally and by outside academics. Navajo speakers have produced resources such as dictionaries and bilingual translations of media, like a dub of the first Star Wars movie. Academics working with the community have produced large quantities of grammars, dictionaries, and papers covering the features of the language. These resources have been crucial to the development of our transducer and we believe, with the resources in existence and with the help of the community, the transducer could be among these invaluable resources for the language.

Evaluation

Github Links