Language Preservation Efforts Get an AI Boost
More news Articles Language Preservation Efforts Get an AI BoostNews subtitleComputer scientists and linguists build AI tech to strengthen endangered languages.ImageImage Ivory Yang, a graduate student in computer science, learned a few words of Nüshu from her grandmother as a child. They worked with expert annotators trained in computational linguistics to create a dataset of 500 digitized Chinese-Nüshu sentence pairs, which included newly mapped words in the two languages.The researchers used samples from the manually translated dataset to train the GPT-4 Turbo large language model. They found that with just 35 samples, the model began to get a grasp of the script and was able to translate test phrases from Chinese to Nüshu that were not part of the training data.
- ▪More news Articles Language Preservation Efforts Get an AI BoostNews subtitleComputer scientists and linguists build AI tech to strengthen endangered languages.ImageImage Ivory Yang, a graduate student in computer science, learned a few wor
- ▪They worked with expert annotators trained in computational linguistics to create a dataset of 500 digitized Chinese-Nüshu sentence pairs, which included newly mapped words in the two languages.The researchers used samples from the manually
- ▪They found that with just 35 samples, the model began to get a grasp of the script and was able to translate test phrases from Chinese to Nüshu that were not part of the training data.
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More news Articles Language Preservation Efforts Get an AI BoostNews subtitleComputer scientists and linguists build AI tech to strengthen endangered languages.ImageImage Ivory Yang, a graduate student in computer science, learned a few words of Nüshu from her grandmother as a child. The characters shown are for the word “ocean.” (Graphic by Richard Clark) 4/9/2025 More Reading DALI Lab Drives Innovation BodyFour centuries ago, Yao women in the southern Chinese province of Hunan created a script called Nüshu—literally meaning “women’s writing” in Chinese—that was used for centuries by women to communicate with one another in secret.After women gained greater access to formal education in the 1900s, the use of the script declined and many Nüshu texts were lost or destroyed over time.
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