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AI vs. Paiwan’s Grammar and the Fight for Indigenous Data Sovereignty | #InTaiwanWeSpeak

AI vs. Paiwan’s Grammar and the Fight for Indigenous Data Sovereignty | #InTaiwanWeSpeak

Update: 2025-07-08
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What happens when AI meets Taiwan’s Indigenous languages? First, it might break its teeth trying to decipher Paiwan’s highly inflected, polysynthetic grammar.

In this episode, linguistics researcher Yedda Ljeljeng lja Palemek explores how AI could help advance research on Indigenous languages. At the same time, she raises concerns about Indigenous data sovereignty — a concept yet to enter Taiwan’s legal system — and the potential for AI to reproduce harmful colonial biases.

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AI vs. Paiwan’s Grammar and the Fight for Indigenous Data Sovereignty | #InTaiwanWeSpeak

AI vs. Paiwan’s Grammar and the Fight for Indigenous Data Sovereignty | #InTaiwanWeSpeak

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