@inproceedings{haberland-etal-2026-bridging,
    title = "Bridging Digital Tools for Linguistic Documentation and Revitalization",
    author = "Haberland, Christopher  and
      Crowther, Carly  and
      Qu, Jingnong  and
      Centellas, Anuk",
    editor = "Mager, Manuel  and
      Ebrahimi, Abteen  and
      Bui, Minh Duc  and
      Pugh, Robert  and
      Oncevay, Arturo  and
      Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Solano, Rolando Coto  and
      Rijhwani, Shruti  and
      Von Der Wense, Katharina",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on {NLP} for Indigenous Languages of the {A}mericas ({A}mericas{NLP})",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.americasnlp-6.3/",
    pages = "22--32",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-415-6",
    abstract = "Digital tools serving language revitalization tend to fall into two categories: 1) linguist-oriented documentation tools that prioritize annotation, morphological analysis, and archival preservation, and 2) community-facing applications that emphasize accessibility and language learning. Few systems integrate the former with the latter, and practical barriers {---} including the cost of computational expertise, single-user workflows, and limited data governance {---} further constrain their utility. These disconnects incur additional development and communication costs for revitalization teams consisting of linguists and community members. We introduce ``langlit'', a collaborative web-based platform that attempts to tailor documentation workflows for the language revitalization context within a single system. The platform integrates a finite-state morphological analyzer with a three-tier human-in-the-loop annotation workflow, searchable corpus interfaces with multiple query modalities, interactive word construction guided by the morphological grammar, corpus-linked hypothesis tracking with provenance, and a grammar-derived editable dictionary. All components share a single underlying FST grammar, and the system supports configurable access controls, collaborative editing, and optional LLM integration with transparent data handling. Designed for redeployment across languages through a modular architecture, ``langlit'' is published as an open-source repository on GitHub. We situate our system within the existing landscape of revitalization tools through a comparative analysis and discuss how integrated, community-informed design can better serve the specific goals of language revitalization."
}