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Cherokee-English Machine Translation for Endangered Language Revitalization
ChrEn: Cherokee-English Machine Translation for Endangered Language Revitalization Shiyue Zhang Benjamin Frey Mohit Bansal UNC Chapel Hill {shiyue, mbansal}@cs.unc.edu; [email protected] Abstract Src. ᎥᏝ ᎡᎶᎯ ᎠᏁᎯ ᏱᎩ, ᎾᏍᎩᏯ ᎠᏴ ᎡᎶᎯ ᎨᎢ ᏂᎨᏒᎾ ᏥᎩ. Ref. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the Cherokee is a highly endangered Native Amer- world. ican language spoken by the Cherokee peo- SMT It was not the things upon the earth, even as I am ple. The Cherokee culture is deeply embed- not of the world. ded in its language. However, there are ap- NMT I am not the world, even as I am not of the world. proximately only 2,000 fluent first language Table 1: An example from the development set of Cherokee speakers remaining in the world, and ChrEn. NMT denotes our RNN-NMT model. the number is declining every year. To help save this endangered language, we introduce people: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ChrEn, a Cherokee-English parallel dataset, to (EBCI), the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee facilitate machine translation research between Indians (UKB), and the Cherokee Nation (CN). Cherokee and English. Compared to some pop- ular machine translation language pairs, ChrEn The Cherokee language, the language spoken by is extremely low-resource, only containing 14k the Cherokee people, contributed to the survival sentence pairs in total. We split our paral- of the Cherokee people and was historically the ba- lel data in ways that facilitate both in-domain sic medium of transmission of arts, literature, tradi- and out-of-domain evaluation. -
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ATLANTA WRITERS CLUB June 2008 —founded in 1914 We are a social and educational club where eQuill local writers meet to discuss the craft and business of writing. We Agenda for Next Meeting—June 21, 2008 also sponsor contests for our members and Plenty of food: host expert speakers •bbq wings, from the worlds of writing, publishing, •hot dogs, and entertainment. •chicken sausages, •veggie burgers, •salads, •corn on the cob, •desserts Passion for Words by Marty Aftewicz, President ......................................................... 2 Photos ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Scratch .................................................................................................................................................. 4 Accolades ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Charles Frazier at Gwinnett Center ......................................................................................... 5 Master Fiction Class ....................................................................................................................... 6 Picnic details...................................................................................................................................... 7 Terry Kay bio by G. Weinstein, Pro. Chair & 1st VP ....................................................... 8 Chattahoochee Valley -
800.438.1601 | Cherokee-Nc.Com Our Past Is in Your Future. Theirs Was A
The Cherokee Historical Association and Museum of the Cherokee Indian are Our Past Is In Your Future. Theirs was a history nearly lost. Just waiting proud members of Southern Highlands for you to discover it. Attractions. We recommend these other great attractions to our visitors. estled among the oak, fir, But unlike many great cultures of the ancient past, and flowered valleys – half shrouded theirs has not been relegated to the dusty catacombs, North Carolina Nin the blue mist that is the name- inside some forgotten vault of some forsaken museum Biltmore Estate - Chimney Rock Park - Grandfather sake of the Blue Ridge and Great of antiquities. Quite the contrary, they are one of the Mountain - Great Smoky Mountains Railroad - Nantahala Smoky Mountains – is a culture few Native American tribes to still occupy their Outdoor Center - Old Salem - Tweetsie Railroad whose history reaches back in an original homelands – the Qualla Boundary – and they Tennessee unbroken chain to a time when invented a written language without being literate Rock City - Gatlinburg Sky Lift - Lookout Mountain even the great pyramids of Egypt in any language beforehand. Such bravery, foresight, Incline Railway - The Lost Sea - Ruby Falls had yet to rise out of the African tenacity, and intelligence has resulted in the vibrant Virginia sands. Theirs is a culture whose Cherokee culture of today. A culture that thrives amid Barter Theatre - Luray Caverns - Natural Bridge legends of the creation were common the demands of modern existence while honoring, knowledge among even their youngest preserving, and, in some cases, resurrecting tribe members, a thousand generations before the aeons-old traditions. -
Chren: Cherokee-English Machine Translation for Endangered Language Revitalization
ChrEn: Cherokee-English Machine Translation for Endangered Language Revitalization Shiyue Zhang Benjamin Frey Mohit Bansal UNC Chapel Hill {shiyue, mbansal}@cs.unc.edu; [email protected] Abstract Src. ᎥᏝ ᎡᎶᎯ ᎠᏁᎯ ᏱᎩ, ᎾᏍᎩᏯ ᎠᏴ ᎡᎶᎯ ᎨᎢ ᏂᎨᏒᎾ ᏥᎩ. Ref. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the Cherokee is a highly endangered Native Amer- world. ican language spoken by the Cherokee peo- SMT It was not the things upon the earth, even as I am ple. The Cherokee culture is deeply embed- not of the world. ded in its language. However, there are ap- NMT I am not the world, even as I am not of the world. proximately only 2,000 fluent first language Table 1: An example from the development set of Cherokee speakers remaining in the world, and ChrEn. NMT denotes our RNN-NMT model. the number is declining every year. To help save this endangered language, we introduce people: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ChrEn, a Cherokee-English parallel dataset, to (EBCI), the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee facilitate machine translation research between Indians (UKB), and the Cherokee Nation (CN). Cherokee and English. Compared to some pop- ular machine translation language pairs, ChrEn The Cherokee language, the language spoken by is extremely low-resource, only containing 14k the Cherokee people, contributed to the survival sentence pairs in total. We split our paral- of the Cherokee people and was historically the ba- lel data in ways that facilitate both in-domain sic medium of transmission of arts, literature, tradi- and out-of-domain evaluation. -
“Data Is Nice:” Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications of an Eastern Cherokee Corpus
Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 20 Collaborative Approaches to the Challenge of Language Documentation and Conservation: Selected papers from the 2018 Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL) ed. by Wilson de Lima Silva and Katherine Riestenberg, p.38-53 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/ 4 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24931 “Data is nice:” Theoretical and pedagogical implications of an Eastern Cherokee corpus Benjamin Frey University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This paper serves as a proof of concept for the usefulness of corpus creation in Cherokee language revitalization. It details the initial collection of a digital corpus of Cherokee/English texts and enumerates how corpus material can augment contemporary language revitalization efforts rather than simply preserving language for future analysis. By collecting and analyzing corpus material, we can quickly create new classroom materials and media products, and answer deeper theoretical linguistic questions. With a large enough corpus, we can even implement machine translation systems to facilitate the production of new texts. Although the vast majority of print material in Cherokee is in the Western dialect, this corpus has focused on Eastern texts. Expanding the dataset to include both dialects, however, will allow for comparison and facilitate generalizations about the Cherokee language as a whole. A corpus of Cherokee data can answer second language learners’ questions about the structure of the language and provide patterns for more effective, targeted learning of Cherokee. It can also provide teachers with ready access to accurate representations of the language produced by native speakers. By combining documentation and technology, we can leverage the power of databases to expedite and facilitate language revitalization.