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title = "Creating an intelligent dictionary of Tsuut{'}ina one verb at a time",
author = "Cox, Christopher and
Starlight, Bruce and
Crane-Starlight, Janelle and
Big Crow, Hanna and
Arppe, Antti",
editor = "Lachler, Jordan and
Agyapong, Godfred and
Arppe, Antti and
Moeller, Sarah and
Chaudhary, Aditi and
Rijhwani, Shruti and
Rosenblum, Daisy",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages",
month = mar,
year = "2025",
address = "Honolulu, Hawaii, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main.12/",
pages = "110--119",
abstract = "In this paper, we discuss the development of a long-term partnership between community and university-based language workers to create supportive language technologies for Tsuutina, a critically endangered Dene language spoken in southern Alberta, Canada. Initial development activities in this partnership sought to rapidly integrate existing language materials, with the aim of arriving at tools that would be effective and impactful for community use by virtue of their extensive lexical coverage. We describe how, as this partnership developed, this approach was gradually superseded by one that involved a more targeted, lexical-item-by-lexical-item review process that was directly informed by other community language priorities and connected to the work a local language authority. We describe how this shift in processes correlated with other changes in local language programs and priorities, noting how ongoing communication allowed this partnership to adapt to the evolving needs of local organizations."
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%T Creating an intelligent dictionary of Tsuut’ina one verb at a time
%A Cox, Christopher
%A Starlight, Bruce
%A Crane-Starlight, Janelle
%A Big Crow, Hanna
%A Arppe, Antti
%Y Lachler, Jordan
%Y Agyapong, Godfred
%Y Arppe, Antti
%Y Moeller, Sarah
%Y Chaudhary, Aditi
%Y Rijhwani, Shruti
%Y Rosenblum, Daisy
%S Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
%D 2025
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
%F cox-etal-2025-creating
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Markdown (Informal)
[Creating an intelligent dictionary of Tsuut’ina one verb at a time](https://aclanthology.org/2025.computel-main.12/) (Cox et al., ComputEL 2025)
ACL
- Christopher Cox, Bruce Starlight, Janelle Crane-Starlight, Hanna Big Crow, and Antti Arppe. 2025. Creating an intelligent dictionary of Tsuut’ina one verb at a time. In Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pages 110–119, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.