“Aikuma”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Aikuma is an Android App for collecting speech recordings with time-aligned translations.^[1] The app includes a text-free interface for consecutive interpretation, designed for users who are not literate.^[2] The Aikuma won Grand Prize in the Open Source Software World Challenge (2013).

Name

Aikuma means "meeting place" in Usarufa, a Papuan language where this software was first used in 2012.^[3]

History

Aikuma was developed with sponsorship from the National Science Foundation, including a $101,501 (US) project, "to use mobile telephones to collect larger amounts of data on undocumented endangered languages than would never be possible through usual fieldwork."^[4]

Aikuma and its modified version (Lig-Aikuma) have been used for collecting substantial quantities of audio in remote indigenous villages.^[5]

A modified version of the app, called Lig-Aikuma, has been developed at the Université Grenoble Alpes (LIG laboratory) and implements new features such as elicitation of speech from text, images and videos. ^[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://aikuma.org/|title=Aikuma homepage|accessdate=2015-04-24}}
2. ^Bird, S., Hanke, F.R., Adams, O., & Lee, H. (2014). Aikuma: A Mobile App for Collaborative Language Documentation. Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pp. 1–5, Baltimore, USA.
3. ^Aikuma homepage, FAQ.
4. ^{{cite web| title = NEH and NSF Award $4.5 Million to Preserve Languages Threatened With Extinction| work = National Endowment for the Humanities| accessdate = 2012-08-29| date = 2012-08-09| url = http://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2012-08-09}}
5. ^Blachon, D., Gauthier, E., Besacier, L., Kouarata, G-N., Adda-Decker, M. and Rialland, A. (2016). Parallel Speech Collection for Under-resourced Language Studies Using the Lig-Aikuma Mobile Device App. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://forge.imag.fr/frs/?group_id=805|title=Lig-Aikuma Forge}}