Activities

Publications

Thue, Braden, Sydney Bess Greenspun, Rolando Coto-Solano, Amy Fountain, Michael Gallaspy, Gus Hahn Powell, Michael Hammond, John Ivens, Eric Jackson, Sevren Quijada, and Aresta Tsosie Paddock. To Appear. Introducing AILT: Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies. Coyote Papers. Manuscript

Presentations

Cummings, Craig. 2025. Adding human languages to computers and mobile devices. AILT Presentation, September 23 Talk

Fountain, Amy, Jennifer Medina, Michael Hammond, Gus Hahn-Powell, Eric Jackson, Youmi Ji, Alice Saeborn Kwak, Ross Freeman, Braden Thue, Sydney Bess Greenspun, Jake Mains, Michael Gallaspy, John Ivens, Aresta Tsosie-Paddock and Rolando Coto Solano. 2026. Improving language technology with Indigenous language communities. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Poster

Lopez, Monte, Sierra Ward, Rolando Coto-Solano and Amy Fountain. 2026. ASR for Transcription for Language Departments. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. [LEXING Talk] get link.

Thue, Braden and Michael Gallaspy. 2026. An orthography conversion tool for Dakota. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. [LEXING Talk] get link.

Thue, Braden, Sydney Bess Greenspun, Rolando Coto-Solano, Amy Fountain, Michael Gallaspy, Gus Hahn Powell, Michael Hammond, John Ivens, Eric Jackson, Sevren Quijada, and Aresta Tsosie Paddock. 2025. Introducing AILT: Advancing Indigenous Language Technologies. Arizona Linguistics Circle Talk

Tsosie-Paddock, Aresta, Amy Fountain, and Ross Freeman. 2026. Our Aha! moment: No wonder language workers are annoyed by keyboards. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. LEXING Talk

Workshops

Coto Solano, Rolando, Amy Fountain, Michael Hammond, Gus Hahn Powell, John Ivens, Eric Jackson, Alice Saeborn Kwak and Aresta Tsosie Paddock. 2024. Community Conversations to kick off AILT project. Participants included representatives of Anishinaabe (Ojibwa), Aymara, Chatina, Gila River Indian Community, Hollow Water First Nation Manitoba, Montreal Lake Cree Nation, Nishnaabemwin, O'odham Ñi'okǐ Ki:, Ojibwe, Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities, Turtle Mountain Community College; with invited guest Mary Johnson of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, as part of the Symposium on American Indian Languages. Notes

Coto-Solano, Rolando, assisted by Eric Jackson, Gus Hahn Powell, Michael Hammond, Michael Gallespy, John Ivens and Amy Fountain. 2025. ASR for Language Departments. With O'odham Ñi'okǐ Ki: and Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities in five day-long lessons at Tohono O'odham Community College.

Coto Solano, Rolando. 2024a. Speech Recognition and Indigenous Languages. Workshop at CoLang. Arizona State University.

Coto Solano, Rolando. 2024b. Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages. Workshop at CoLang. Arizona State University.

de la Cruz Sánchez, Gabriela and Eric Jackson. 2024. Introduction to FLEx 1 and 2. Workshop2 at CoLang. Arizona State University.

Freeman, Ross, Aresta Tsosie Paddock, John Ivens and Amy Fountain. 2024. Keyboard development with Keyman Developer. With Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities in one day-long lesson; Introduction to Diné Bizaad classes (LING104b and LING204b) in one class period at the University of Arizona.

Hahn Powell, Gus, John Ivens and Amy Fountain. 2024. Basics of database design and implementation. Workshop at CoLang. Arizona State University.

Jackson, Eric, assisted by John Ivens, Gus Hahn Powell, Braden Thue, and Amy Fountain. 2025. Introduction to FLEx. Three day-long lessons; with Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities.

Ivens, John, Amy Fountain, Gus Hahn Powell and Amy Fountain. 2025. Introduction to database design, one day-long lesson; with Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Communities.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful for financial support from the Agnese Helms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice Award through the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the National Science Foundation Award BCS-2347147. Our project is housed at The University of Arizona and Dartmouth University.