@inproceedings{chu-etal-2025-ataigi,
    title = "{ATAIGI}: An {AI}-Powered Multimodal Learning App Leveraging Generative Models for Low-Resource {T}aiwanese Hokkien",
    author = "Chu, Yun-Hsin  and
      Zhu, Shuai  and
      Hung, Shou-Yi  and
      Lin, Bo-Ting  and
      Lee, En-Shiun Annie  and
      Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han",
    editor = "Dziri, Nouha  and
      Ren, Sean (Xiang)  and
      Diao, Shizhe",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations)",
    month = apr,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.naacl-demo.2/",
    pages = "11--19",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-191-9",
    abstract = "Many endangered languages are at risk of extinction due to barriers in communication and generational gaps that hinder their preservation. A cause for languages becoming endangered is the lack of language educational tools and artificial intelligence (AI) models for these low-resource languages. To address this, we propose the ATAIGI learning app designed with AI-powered models leveraging multimodal generative techniques. Our app offers users a comprehensive learning experience by providing translated phrases and definitions, example sentences, illustrative images, romanized pronunciation, and audio speech to accelerate language learning. ATAIGI is built on five AI models that are rigorously benchmarked individually, with our Transliteration Model achieving state-of-the-art results for Taiwanese Hokkien transliteration. ATAIGI is available for all to learn the endangered language of Taiwanese Hokkien, an endangered language spoken in Taiwan. A human evaluation conducted demonstrates the effectiveness of ATAIGI in improving language proficiency and cultural understanding, supporting its potential for the preservation and education of endangered languages like the Taiwanese Hokkien."
}