Important: There has been a change in the room where the workshop will be held, please see the venue page for details.

Recently there have been large advances in natural language processing and language technology, largely focused on the world's most widely spoken languages such as English and Chinese. However, at the same time, there is an urgent need for similar technology for the roughly half of the world's languages that are threatened or endangered. The rapid documentation and revitalization of these languages is of paramount importance, but all too often language technology is playing no role in this process.

This major goal of this workshop is to take the recent and rapid advances in language technology (such as speech recognition, machine translation, automatic analysis of syntax, question answering, etc.), and put them in the hands of those on the front lines of language documentation and revitalization (such as language community members or documentary linguists).

The workshop will be collaborative, and we hope to involve:

• Language community members
• Documentary linguists
• Computational linguists
• Computer scientists and developers

The workshop will feature a few invited talks, but mainly consist of group work on projects, where the participants split into small groups of 4-5 to work together to design and build a practical prototype of technology that could aid language documentation and revitalization. Specifically, projects will attempt to:

• Helping computer scientists understand the practical needs and bottlenecks experienced in the language documentation and revitalization process
• Helping language community members and linguists understand both the potential and limitations of current language technology
• Taking current language technology and incorporating it in the language documentation and revitalization pipeline

Some practical ideas for projects are listed on the project page.

If you are interested in participating, please view the registration page to sign up, or contact the organizers with any questions.