Terminology
Technical language is useful, but can also get in the way of conversation between fields. The same word can carry very different weight to a linguist, an AI researcher, an archivist, and a community language teacher. The word "AI" especially has become too broad a term to talk about meaningfully.
Terms
| Name | Category | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Low-resource language | AI & NLP | A language with little digital data for AI methods. |
| Natural language processing | AI & NLP | Building systems that work with human language. |
| CARE Principles | Ethics & governance | Indigenous data governance principles — Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics. |
| Consent | Ethics & governance | Ongoing, revocable say over how language data is used. |
| Data sovereignty | Ethics & governance | A people's right to govern data about their community. |
| Extractive research | Ethics & governance | Taking from a community without returning value or control. |
| Language documentation | Linguistics | Recording and preserving a language's words, sounds, and texts. |
| Language revitalization | Linguistics | Bringing a language back into active, intergenerational use. |