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Re:Inuttitut, a language shaped by humility, poetry, and the... by protomyth on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:51PM (#25391648)
It sounds to me more like you already had a tool in mind (ML) and were just looking for some nails ;)

Well, like all people looking to get grants, I had a pot of money we could get but we had to use a tool to do it. Welcome to grants in 2020 where ML is one thing that gets funded and language preservation is not funded but actually needed as COVID seems to be removing a fair number of people who know the language.

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Re:Inuttitut, a language shaped by humility, poetry, and the... by yorwba on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:25AM (#25396990)
Maybe you can do a dual-use project, where, if the ML part turns out to be not that useful, at least the data you collected or the baseline model you developed have a positive impact as well.
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