DRAGONS Lab

Images of CILLDI team in the SOLOMON Islands
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DRAGONS Lab (Documentation, Revitalization and Generation Of New Speakers).

The DRAGONS lab is a distinct but interwoven branch of CILLDI. As the research arm of the institute, the lab is born out and informed by the past 25 years of CILLDI’s engagement with communities and speakers in Canada and abroad. DRAGONS lab investigates the social dynamics of language revitalization. We seek to discover new and innovative strategies to support the intergenerational sustainability of Indigenous languages. We use our research findings to not just promote Indigenous languages themselves but the methodologies by which we document, revitalize, and promote them. What we learn through the research is internalized by CILLDI and put into practice. We are dedicated to being better researchers and educators.

Publications and Presentations

Publications

Flavelle, D., & Lachler, J. (2023). Designing Corpus-Creation Tools for Language Revitalization. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 44(2), 143-159

Flavelle, D., & Lachler, J. (2023, May). Strengthening Relationships Between Indigenous Communities, Documentary Linguists, and Computational Linguists in the Era of NLP-Assisted Language Revitalization. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Cross-Cultural Considerations in NLP (C3NLP) (pp. 25-34).

Presentations

An Evidence-Based Approach to Training for Language Revitalization-LCC Colloquium Talk Fall 2023