11-736 Graduate Seminar on Endangered Languages

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

The purpose of this seminar is to allow students to better understand the linguistic, social and political issues when working with language technologies for endangered languages. Often in LTI we concentrate on issues of modeling with small amounts of data, or designing optimal strategies for collecting data, but ignore many of wider practical issues that appear when working with endangered languages. This seminar will consist of reading books and papers, and having participants give presentations a few invited talks e.g. from field linguists, and language advocates will also be included. It will count for 6 units of LTI course credit. It may be possible for interested students to also carry out a related 6unit project as a lab.

Prerequisites: none listed

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