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The Columbia Language Justice Perspectives Project

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Creating a fairer digital space for the preservation of world languages

The Columbia Language Justice Perspectives Project aims to create a fairer digital space for the preservation of world languages. Its desire is to create a curated interactive map that visually portrays multilingual reflections on language justice and their corresponding English translations. In essence, the project demonstrates that machine translation is a double-edged sword in the fight for language justice in the digital sphere, as current translation technologies often do not include many low-resource minority languages.

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  • Kyra Ann Dawkins

    Kyra Ann Dawkins

    Columbia University

    Kyra a young alumna of Columbia College at Columbia University in the City of New York, hailing from the historic class of 2020. She studied Medicine, Literature, and Society. Dawkins is a published author and her debut novel The We and the They recently received The Firebird Award, taking first place three times for excellence in the dystopian, magical realism, and speculative fiction categories. Like her project partner, Dawkins hopes to further her education to consider how data science can be best used to further the well-being of language diversity in digital spheres and beyond.more

  • Nikita Desir

    Nikita Desir

    Columbia University

    Nikita is a student in her final year at Columbia College at Columbia University in the City of New York, majoring in Comparative Literature and Society and computer science. She hopes to consider the multidisciplinary intersections between data analysis and humanities in navigating data science graduate school options. more

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