Below are examples of my work developing Choctaw and indigenous language technology and resources. If you'd like to work with me developing language technology, reach out on my Contact page!
Choctaw language Websites
- I am delighted to be the Web and Mobile Apps Developer on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to create a dictionary of Choctaw. The website can be viewed at the following link and will go live in 2024: https://dictionary.choctaw.org/en/
- I am the Website Developer and Chatbot Consultant for Native Earth Native Sky, a NASA Science Activation Grant. The website is continuously being added to, and can be viewed at: https://nativeearthnativesky.org
Choctaw language Games
1. Anumple : This is a Choctaw version of Wordle (Oklahoma spelling)
2. Interactive Language Games Workshop (presented at CoLang 2024)
In this workshop, we created a Choctaw version of the board game Scrabble, and also learned to code 3 games and publish the games on the web. The games were: Madlibs, a word guessing game (aka "hangman"), and Wordle.
Explanatory handouts and example code if you'd like to make these games for your language are available in this Google Drive
2. Interactive Language Games Workshop (presented at CoLang 2024)
In this workshop, we created a Choctaw version of the board game Scrabble, and also learned to code 3 games and publish the games on the web. The games were: Madlibs, a word guessing game (aka "hangman"), and Wordle.
Explanatory handouts and example code if you'd like to make these games for your language are available in this Google Drive
Translated Texts
Translated children's books
Downloadable pdfs of children's books that have been translated from English into Choctaw with the assistance of the Los Angeles Choctaw Language community class
Downloadable pdfs of children's books that have been translated from English into Choctaw with the assistance of the Los Angeles Choctaw Language community class
Dialogue Systems
Masheli: A Choctaw-English bilingual dialogue system
Currently down while I complete my dissertation defense. check back soon to try it out!
Also check out articles about my work in Viterbi Magazine, Biskinik (the Choctaw Nation's newspaper), and the Washington Post (behind a paywall). The animated short accompanying the Viterbi article also won a Case award.
Currently down while I complete my dissertation defense. check back soon to try it out!
Also check out articles about my work in Viterbi Magazine, Biskinik (the Choctaw Nation's newspaper), and the Washington Post (behind a paywall). The animated short accompanying the Viterbi article also won a Case award.
Machine Translation
I recently received a Wikitongues grant to build a Choctaw Machine Translation system, check back in a few months to see a demo!
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
A demo is in the works! For now, you can see more about this from relevant publications on my Research page.