Alice Kwak

About Alice Kwak

I am a second year Ph.D. student who is interested in language revitalization, language documentation, language database creation, and pedagogical material development. I am currently involved in the COLRC (Coeur d'Alene Online Language Resource Center) project, and I am also working as a graduate research associate in the School of Information. My current research topic is to analyze the status of Coeur d'Alene pedagogical materials and to figure out ways to improve them through integrating various materials (scholarly grammars, oral literatures, language database).

Projects

- Indigenous Languages of the Americas and their Structures (ILAS) Working Group

- The COLRC (Coeur d'Alene Online Language Resource Center) Project: https://thecolrc.org

- Automates project: https://github.com/ml4ai/automates

- Participated in developing the online archive system for Korean dialects: https://dialect.korean.go.kr/dialect/ (May 2019 - April 2020) 

Research Interests

language revitalization, language documentation, language database creation, pedagogical material development, community-based research, language change, language attitude

Language of interest: Coeur d'Alene, Jeju regional dialect (South Korea)

Selected Publications

Xie, Z., Kwak, A., George, E., Dozal, L., Van, H., Jah, M., Furfaro, R., and Jansen, P. (2022). Extracting Space Situational Awareness Events from News Text. (pre-print, can be found from https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05721)

Kwak, Saebom & You, Seok-Hoon (2019) Analysis of Koreans' Overt and Covert Language Attitudes towards Jeju Dialect. Language Information 29, p. 26-54.