Hanzi Input Methods

By Michel Ge This post was developed as part of the spring 2022 Columbia University course “Global Language Justice in the Digital Sphere: Theory and Practice” taught by Isabelle Zaugg, PhD. This post builds on Michel Ge’s previous posts 1) “Global Language Justice and the Chinese Language Family” and 2) “Hanzi Characters and Unicode.” Hanzi characters…

Hanzi Characters and Unicode

By Michel Ge This post was developed as part of the spring 2022 Columbia University course “Global Language Justice in the Digital Sphere: Theory and Practice” taught by Isabelle Zaugg, PhD. This post builds on Michel Ge’s previous post 1) “Global Language Justice and the Chinese Language Family” and is followed by an additional post 3) “Hanzi…

Global Language Justice and the Chinese Language Family

By Michel Ge This post was developed as part of the spring 2022 Columbia University course “Global Language Justice in the Digital Sphere: Theory and Practice” taught by Isabelle Zaugg, PhD. This post is followed by 2) “Hanzi Characters and Unicode” and 3) “Hanzi Input Methods.” “A language is a dialect with an army and navy.” –…

A Social-Constructivist Approach to Language Diversity

By Tiansheng Sun This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of the Collaboratory@Columbia….

Digital Language Justice as an Avenue to Tech Justice

By Megan St. Hilaire This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of…

The Importance of Language Representation in Technology

By Erica Veltman This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of the Collaboratory@Columbia….

The Need for Language Diversity

By Janill Lema This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of the Collaboratory@Columbia….

Reflections on the Global Language Justice Workshop

“Global Language Justice: An Interdisciplinary Workshop” brought together scholars from across continents for the final gathering of a three-year collective undertaking. Rather than providing closure, however, the breadth and intensity of the discussions at the full-day workshop generated still more openings, raising new questions about the future of language justice in our rapidly shifting global…

Language Justice and Technology

By Anjali Krishnan (See the author’s video about social media and indigenous languages here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jsgry4EZ-A) This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and…

English and the Software Development Lingua Franca

By Brennan Xavier McManus This post was developed as part of the Columbia University course “Multilingual Technologies and Language Diversity” taught by Smaranda Muresan, PhD and Isabelle Zaugg, PhD.  This cross-disciplinary course offering was a joint effort between the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Computer Science, developed through the generous support of…