Learn practical skills for building
low-resource language technology.
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What we do
BELT provides straightforward tutorials that teach skills for building real, practical language tools for your own language. You don't need a programming or linguistics background, just some text from your language and knowledge about it.
Why it matters
Modern language tools (like spellcheckers or voice transcription) are mainly designed for high-resource, widely spoken languages. BELT gives you the skills to build those tools, without huge amounts of data or supercomputers.
Who should use this?
Our audience is endangered language community members, field linguists, and anyone interested in language preservation.
Who are we?
BELT is part of the FOLTA project at the University of Colorado at Boulder, under the supervision of Dr. Alexis Palmer and developed by Michael Ginn.