ISCA Archive SIGUL 2023
ISCA Archive SIGUL 2023

New Challenges, Old Problems: AI and Under-resourced Languages

Delyth Prys

Advances in language technologies for under-resourced languages include more focused strategies and policies for individual languages as well as progress in the technologies themselves. Looking especially at Welsh and other Celtic languages we consider the importance of economic regeneration hand in hand with language revitalization. We also consider how greater multilingual cooperation and new research on cultural appropriateness of language models could benefit them and other languages, as part of a wider European effort to put an end to digital language extinction.