By providing INDUS with domain-specific vocabulary, the IMPACT-IBM team achieved superior performance over open, non-domain specific LLMs on a benchmark for biomedical tasks, a scientific question-answering benchmark, and Earth science entity recognition tests. By designing for diverse linguistic tasks and retrieval augmented generation, INDUS is able to process...
Originally published by RegScale. Written by Dave Schmoeller. Kickoff: Navigating the Cybersecurity Language Landscape Imagine the chaos when a cybersecurity breach puts data at risk, and departments are left in a scramble. Cybersecurity tags the event a ‘security incident,’ Risk counters with a ‘data breach,’ while Compliance cries out ‘SLA violation’. The jargon...
Jason Snead, Executive Director of Honest Elections Project, is not just a veteran election lawyer and policy expert, as well as a messaging guru regarding election laws and policy, but a friend to every voter in our country who wants elections to be honest, lawful and fair – and believe that all legal votes should be counted accurately. Jason and his team were on...
Deadline is May 30, 2019FINAL REMINDER: Apply Now for Native Language Program Grants First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is conducting a Request for Proposals (RFP) process for its Native Language Immersion Initiative (NLII). First Nations will award about 12 grants of up to $90,000 each to build the capacity of and directly support Native language...
Over $1 Million in Grants Awarded in Third Year of Native Language Immersion Initiative LONGMONT, Colorado (January 9, 2020) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) announced twelve new grantees under the third year of its Native Language Immersion Initiative (NLII). First Nations launched the initiative in 2017 as a three-year project to support Native...
←BACK Tama I’atala, LLP activities coordinator, leads the language class in a group conversation activity. Have you ever tried to learn a new language? If so, you know that becoming a proficient speaker takes work, but comes more easily if you practice with others as often as you can. That’s why every Wednesday evening you will find families gathering on...
←BACK Early this summer, under a warm June sun, small groups of Red Cloud students ran across campus calling out to one another in the Lakota language. They were taking part in a Lakota version of the “Amazing Race”—an interactive game that was designed especially for this year’s fifth annual Lakȟól’iya Wičhóthi or Lakota Language Camp. To teach campers...
RACE & PLACE Love, loss, and the limits of language. by MELE GIRMA If grief is love with nowhere to go, I think it is also a language with no one to speak it. After circling the sanctuary with a curl of incense trailing behind him for what feels like hours, the priest finally nods for us to sit. I sink into my seat in relief, exhausted. I cannot believe that I am...
On a frigid February morning, Red Cloud graduate Elyssa Sierra Concha ’13 climbed the marble steps of the South Dakota State Capital in Pierre. She had driven hours from her home on the Pine Ridge Reservation the evening before. She wanted to be there early to prepare to testify in support of SB126, newly introduced legislation that would make the three dialects of...
LONGMONT, Colorado (January 21, 2021) – For the fourth year in a row, First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) is continuing its Native Language Immersion Initiative (NLII) with the awarding of nine grants to Native-led organizations and tribes building language in their communities through immersion programs. First Nations launched the initiative in 2017...