Below find a list of research publications and presentation materials that have been created by current and former members during their time in our lab. As much as possible, we have included access to final versions of our articles or presentation materials for the purposes of non-commercial academic discussion, scholarly collaboration, and teaching. If you notice any research missing from this list, or if you find material that you believe should not be linked here, please contact us with the relevant details.
NOTE: Due to copyright considerations, we have been unable to provide final published versions for a select few published articles. Any references that have a “**” beside the title are instead linked to pre-publication versions of the research. Additional links to the final published version on the publisher’s website are included at the end of each reference.
2024
Arppe, Antti (in progress). AI – Artificial Idiocy, not Intelligence – the disturbing case of AI-generated fraudulent dictionaries for Indigenous languages. Technical Report. Alberta language Technology Lab (ALTLab), University of Alberta.
2022
Lane, William, Harrigan, Atticus, & Arppe, Antti (2022). Interactive Word Completion for Plains Cree. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1 (Long Papers), 3284-3294. Dublin, Ireland: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Arppe, Antti, Andrew Neitsch, Jolene Poulin, Daniel W. Hieber, Atticus Harrigan, and Daniel B. Dacanay (2022, April 28). Finding words that aren’t there – Using word embeddings to improve dictionary search for low-resource languages. (Presentation) Digital Humanities seminar, University of Helsinki.
Harrigan, Atticus G. & Antti Arppe (forthcoming, 2022). Leveraging Majority Language Resources for Plains Cree Semantic Classification. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (eds), Papers of the Fifty-Second Algonquian Conference (PAC52), 52, 1-20. East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Press.
2021
Antti Arppe, Eddie Antonio Santos, Andrew Neitsch, Jolene Poulin, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Daniel Hieber & Arok Wolvengrey (2021, October 16). Towards a morphologically intelligent and user-friendly on-line dictionary of Plains Cree – next next round (itwêwina: itwewina.altlab.app). (Presentation) 53rd Algonquian Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa.
Dacanay, Daniel, Atticus G. Harrigan, Arok Wolvengrey, & Antti Arppe (2021, June 11). The More Detail, the Better? – Investigating the Effects of Semantic Ontology Specificity on Vector Semantic Classification with a Plains Cree / nêhiyawêwin Dictionary. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (NAACL-HLT 2021), 1, 143-152. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.
Dacanay, Daniel, Atticus G. Harrigan & Antti Arppe (2021, March 2). Computational Analysis versus Human Intuition: A Critical Comparison of Vector Semantics with Manual Semantic Classification in the Context of Plains Cree. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages, 1, 33-43. doi:https://doi.org/10.33011/
Harrigan, Atticus G. & Antti Arppe (2021, June 11). Leveraging English Word Embeddings for Semi-automatic Semantic Classification in nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree). Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (NAACL-HLT 2021), 1, 113-121. doi: https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.12/
2020
Arppe, Antti & Jordan Lachler (2020). 21st Century Language Technology Tools: 21st Century Challenges vs. 21st Century Opportunities. In G. Adda, K. Choukri, I. Kasinskaite-Buddeberg, J. Mariani, H. Mazo & S. Sakriani (eds), Proceedings of the Language Technologies for All (LT4All), 311-314. Retrieved from: https://lt4all.elra.info/proceedings/lt4all2019/pdf/2019.lt4all-1.78.pdf
Arppe, Antti, Katherine Schmirler, Atticus G. Harrigan & Arok Wolvengrey (2020). A Morphosyntactically Tagged Corpus for Plains Cree**. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (eds), Papers of the Forty-Ninth Algonquian Conference (PAC49), 49, 1-16. East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctvv417gp.5
Littell, Patrick, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kuhn, Aidan Pine, Antti Arppe, Christopher Cox & Marie-Odile Junker (2020). Indigenous Language Technologies in Canada: Assessment, Challenges, and Successes. In UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019.
2019
Arppe, Antti, Katherine Schmirler, Miikka Silfverberg, Mans Hulden & Arok Wolvengrey (2019). Insights from computational modelling of the derivational structure of Plains Cree stems**. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (eds), Papers of the Forty-Eighth Algonquian Conference (PAC48), 48, 1-18. East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/j.ctvc5pc5j.4
Harrigan, Atticus, Antti Arppe, & Timothy Mills (2019). Preliminary Plains Cree Speech Synthesizer. Arppe, Antti, Good, Jeff, Hulden, Mans, Lachler, Jordan, Palmer, Alexis, Schwartz, Lane, & Silfverberg, Miikka (Eds.). Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-3), 1, 64-73. Stroudsburgh, Pennsylvania: Association of Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from: https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/computel/issue/view/43
Schmirler, Katherine, & Antti Arppe (2019). Modelling Plains Cree Negation with Constraint Grammar. In E. Bick & T. Trosterud (eds), Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2019 Workshop on Constraint Grammar – Methods, Tools and Applications, 27-34. Retrieved from: https://ep.liu.se/ecp/article.asp?issue=168&article=007&volume=0
Schmirler, Katherine, Atticus Harrigan, Antti Arppe & Arok Wolvengrey (2019). Plains Cree verbal derivational morphology: a corpus investigation**. In M. Macaulay & M. Noodin (eds), Papers of the Forty-Eighth Algonquian Conference (PAC48), 48, 239-254. East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Press. Final published version can be found at https://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctvc5pc5j.18
2018
Arppe, Antti, Chris Harvey, Marie-Odile Junker & J. Randolph Valentine (2018). Algonquian Verb Paradigms: A Case for Systematicity and Consistency. In: M. MacCauley, and M. Noodin (eds), Papers of the 47th Algonquian Conference (PAC47), 47, 1-22. East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Press. https://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctt1x76dj5.4
Arppe, Antti, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler & Arok Wolvengrey (2018, June). A morphologically intelligent online dictionary for Plains Cree, Presentation conducted at the meeting of Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS), University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Arppe, Antti, Katherine Schmirler, Eddie Antonio Santos & Arok Wolvengrey (2018, November). Towards a Systematic and Quantitative Identification of Historical Sound Change Rules – Algonquian Historical Linguistics Meets Optical Character Recognition Evaluation. Working Paper presented in Alberta Language Technology Lab seminar, 19 November 2018, Edmonton, Alberta. Retrieved from: https://altlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OCR_and_proto-Algonquian_nonanon.pdf
Bontogon, Megan, Antti Arppe, Lene Antonsen, Dorothy Thunder & Jordan Lachler (2018). Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) for nêhiyawêwin: An In-Depth User Experience Evaluation**. Canadian Modern Language Review, 74(3), 337–362. Final published version available at https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.4054
Harrigan, Atticus, Antti Arppe & Arok Wolvengrey (2018). Toward a Detailed Plains Cree VAI Paradigm. In: M. MacCauley, & M. Noodin (eds), Papers of the Forty-Seventh Algonquian Conference (PAC47), 47, 129-146. East Lansing, Michigan: MSU Press. https://doi.org/10.14321/j.ctt1x76dj5.10
Lachler, Jordan, Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Sjur N. Moshagen, & Antti Arppe (2018). Modeling Northern Haida Morphology. Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), 2326-2330, Miyazaki, Japan: European Language Resource Association. Retrieved from: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L18-1368.pdf
Littell, Patrick, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kuhn, Aidan Pine, Antti Arppe, Christopher Cox, & Marie-Odile Junker (2018). Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes. In Emily Bender, Leon Derczynski, and Pierre Isabelle (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), 2620-2632. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Association of Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1222
Littlechild, Mary Jean, Louise Wildcat, Jerry Roasting, Harley Simon, Annette Lee, Arlene Makinaw, Rosie Rowan, Rose Makinaw, Kisikaw, Betty Simon, Brian Lightning, Brian Lee, Linda Oldpan, Miriam Buffalo, Debora Young, Ivy Raine, Paula Mackinaw, Norma Linda Saddleback, Renee Makinaw, Atticus Harrigan, Katherine Schmirler, Dustin Bowers, Megan Bontogon, Sarah Giesbrecht, Patricia Johnson, Timothy Mills, Jordan Lachler & Antti Arppe (2018, June). Towards a spoken dictionary of Maskwacîs Cree. Presentation conducted at the meeting of Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS), University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Lovick, Olga, Christopher Cox, Miikka Silfverberg, Antti Arppe & Mans Hulden (2018). A computational architecture for the morphology of Upper Tanana. Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), 1874-1879. Miyazaki, Japan: European Language Resource Association. Retrieved from: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/pdf/816.pdf.
Schmirler, Katherine, Antti Arppe, Trond Trosterud & Lene Antonsen (2018). Building a Constraint Grammar Parser for Plains Cree Verbs and Arguments. Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), 2981-2988. Miyazaki, Japan: European Language Resource Association. Retrieved from http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/pdf/873.pdf.
2017
Arppe, Antti, Christopher Cox, Mans Hulden, Jordan Lachler, Sjur N. Moshagen, Miikka Silfverberg & Trond Trosterud (2017). Computational Modeling of Verbs in Dene Languages: The Case of Tsuut’ina. In Alessandro Jaker (ed.), Working Papers in Athabaskan (Dene) Languages (Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers) 13, 51-69. Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center.
Arppe, Antti, Marie-Odile Junker, & Delasie Torkornoo (2017). Converting a comprehensive lexical database into a computational model: The case of East Cree verb inflection. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-2), 43-47, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Hawai’i: ACL Anthology. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-0108
Bowers, Dustin, Antti Arppe, Jordan Lachler, Sjur N. Moshagen & Trond Trosterud (2017). A Morphological Parser for Odawa. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-2), 1-9, University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, Hawai’i: ACL Anthology. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-0101.
Harrigan, Atticus, Katherine Schmirler, Antti Arppe, Lene Antonsen, Sjur N. Moshagen, Trond Trosterud & Arok Wolvengrey (2017). Learning from the Computational Modeling of Plains Cree Verbs**. Morphology, 27(4), 565–598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-017-9315-x The final publication is available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11525-017-9315-x.
Schmirler, Katherine M., Antti Arppe, Atticus G. Harrigan & Arok Wolvengrey. (2017, March). A Morphologically Tagged Corpus for Plains Cree. Presentation conducted at the meeting of 4th Prairie Workshop on Language and Linguistics, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Schmirler, Katherine M. (2017). Computational modelling of Plains Cree syntax: A Constraint Grammar approach to verbs and arguments in a Plains Cree corpus. [Unpublished PhD qualifying paper]. University of Alberta.
2016
Hubert, Isabell (2016). Training Tesseract 3.x to a New Language. A Practical Manual. URL: https://altlab.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IH-Updated-Tesseract-Manual.pdf
Arppe, Antti, Atticus G. Harrigan & Katherine Schmirler (2016, May) So similar in principle, but so different in practice– Mixing texts, elicitation, and experimentation in the study of the Plains Cree independent and conjunct verb constructions. Presentation conducted at 2nd Workshop on New Ways of Analyzing Syntactic Variation (NWASV2), Universiteit Ghent, Ghent, Belgium. Abstract retrieved from http://www.eqtis.ugent.be/nwasv2/abstracts_nwasv2.pdf
Arppe, Antti, Jordan Lachler, Trond Trosterud, Lene Antonsen, & Sjur N. Moshagen (2016). Basic Language Resource Kits for Endangered Languages: A Case Study of Plains Cree. In: C. Soria, L. Pretorius, T. Declerck, J. Mariani, K. Scannell & E. Wandl-Vogt (eds). CCURL 2016: Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages: Towards an Alliance for Digital Language Diversity (LREC 2016 Workshop), Portoroz, Slovenia: European Language Resource Association. Retrieved from: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/workshops/LREC2016Workshop-CCURL2016_Proceedings.pdf
Bontogon, Megan A. (2016). Evaluating nêhiyawêtân: A computer assisted language learning (CALL) application for Plains Cree. (BA Honours Thesis). Education and Research Archive. https://doi.org/10.7939/R3VD6P81C
Cox, Christopher, Måns Huldén, Miikka Silfverberg, Jordan Lachler, Sally Rice, Sjur N. Moshagen, Trond Trosterud & Antti Arppe (2016, June) Computational modeling of the verb in Dene languages. The case of Tsuut’ina. Presentation conducted at the meeting of Dene Languages Conference, Yellowknife, North-West Territories.
Divjak, Dagmar, Ewa Dabrowska & Antti Arppe (2016). Machine Meets Man: evaluating the psychological reality of corpus-based probabilistic models**. Cognitive Linguistics, 27 (1): 1-34. Final published version available from https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2015-0101
Hubert, Isabell, Antti Arppe, Jordan Lachler & Eddie A. Santos. (2016). Training & Quality Assessment of an Optical Character Recognition Model for Northern Haida. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), et al. (Eds). Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), (pp. 3227-3234). Portorož, Slovenia: European Language Resources Association. Retrieved from: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1514.pdf
2015
Arppe, Antti, Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Sjur Moshagen, Dorothy Thunder, Conor Snoek, Timothy Mills, Juhani Jarvikivi & Jordan Lachler. (2015, February) Turning language documentation into reader’s and writer’s software tools. Presentation conducted at 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC4): Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i.
2014
Arppe, Antti, Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud, Conor Snoek, Dorothy Thunder, Atticus Harrigan, Jordan Lachler, Jean Okimâsis & Arok Wolvengrey (2014, October). Linguistic insights from computational modeling of Plains Cree morphology, Presentation conducted at the meeting of The Forty-Sixth Algonquian Conference, Uncasville, Connecticut.
Snoek, Conor, Dorothy Thunder, Kaidi Lõo, Antti Arppe, Jordan Lachler, Juhani Järvikivi, Timothy Mills, Sjur N. Moshagen & Trond Trosterud (2014, March). Literacy and language learning tools for Plains Cree. Presentation conducted at the meeting of Prairies Workshop on Languages and Linguistics, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba.
Snoek, Conor, Dorothy Thunder, Kaidi Lõo, Antti Arppe, Jordan Lachler, Sjur Moshagen & Trond Trosterud (2014). Modeling the Noun Morphology of Plains Cree. In J. Good, J. Hirschberg, O. Rambow (Eds): ComputEL: Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 34-42. Baltimore, Maryland: Association for Computational Linguistics. Retrieved from http://acl2014.org/acl2014/W14-22/pdf/W14-2205.pdf
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