Papers by William Dinauer
Recontextualizing Revitalization: A Mixed Media Approach to Reviving the Nüshu Language (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Nüshu is an endangered language from Jiangyong County, Hunan, China, and the world’s only known writing system created and used exclusively by women. |
| Approach: | They propose to use NüshuStrokes to record all 397 Unicode Nü Shu characters in sequential handwriting by an expert calligrapher. |
| Outcome: | Evaluating five state-of-the-art Chinese Optical Character Recognition systems on NüshuVision lowers CER to 0.67, a modest but meaningful improvement over previous datasets. |
What is it? Towards a Generalizable Native American Language Identification System (2025.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Despite their cultural and historical significance, Native American languages remain unsupported by major commercial language identification systems. |
| Approach: | They propose to curate linguistic resources across all Native American languages for robust training and tailor data augmentation to generate synthetic yet linguistically coherent training samples. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system would be generalizable across all Native American languages . it would also generate coherent training samples for low-resource languages based on Plains Apache . |