User:Zkelly1/Final project

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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.

Evaluation

Category:sp22_FinalProjects