Papers with language preservation
A Treebank of Asia Minor Greek (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Asia Minor Greek (AMG) dialects are endangered because of declining speaker base and scarce linguistic resources. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a treebank of Pharasiot Greek, one of the Asia Minor Greek (AMG) dialects. |
| Outcome: | The proposed treebank consists of 350 sentences from six fairy tales in Pharasiot Greek. |
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. |