We are the Linguistic Algorithms, Resources, and Conservation group at Indiana University Bloomington’s Department of Linguistics, led by Prof. Luke Gessler. We are united by our interest in algorithms and resources for computationally processing languages which are endangered or “low-resource” (lacking large quantities of digitized data).
Our recent work has attempted to advance the following goals:
- Realizing the benefits of human language technologies in endangered language documentation and conservation
- Developing higher-quality language technologies for low-resource languages
- Using techniques and knowledge from linguistics to develop evaluations for low-resource language technologies
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Luke Gessler named a CORE Institute Fellow on Indigenous language revitalization
Congratulations to LARC director Luke Gessler, who has been selected for the CORE Institute Fellows Program on Indigenous Language Revitalization! The fellowship brings together a small cohort to shape what...
LARC at ACL 2026: 🏆 Victor and Peter take #1 on AmericasNLP 2026 shared task for GuaranĂ
Congratulations to IUCL PhD students Phakphum Artkaew and Victor Shi on their submission of the IUHoosiers system to the AmericasNLP 2026 shared task for culturally-sensitive image caption generation, which placed...
Projects
Plaid 2020–
Plaid is a platform for linguistic annotation applications focused on serving language documentation and allowing first-class integration with language technologies.
Low-Resource Model Evaluation 2024–
We have published several benchmarks designed to help us better understand how well language technologies, such as language models, can process low-resource languages.