Aidan Pine
Linguist & Developer
Hello!
My name is Aidan Pine. I'm a settler of European ancestry born in Victoria, B.C. and I developed this site in order to bring together the various language revitalization and open-source software projects that I am involved in.
I fell in love with language revitalization work as a way of combining my interests in language, linguistics, anti-colonial/decolonial methodologies, and computer science.
I am a full-time researcher at the Canadian National Research Council, where I am currently technical lead for the Speech Generation for Indigenous Language Education project. I am also the founder and lead developer of Mother Tongues, and former technology consultant for the First Peoples' Cultural Council, and the University of British Columbia.
Publications
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Gramble: A Tabular Programming Language for Collaborative Linguistic Modeling. In proceedings of
LREC-COLING 2024.
Littell, P., Stewart, D., Davis, F., Pine, A., Kuhn, R. 2024. ACL. -
An Initial Investigation of Language Adaptation for TTS Systems under Low-resource Scenarios. In proceedings of
Interspeech 2024.
Gong, C., Cooper, E., Wang, X., Qiang, C., Geng, M., Wells, D., Wang, L., Dang, J., Tessier, M., Pine, A., Richmond, K., Yamagishi, J. 2024. ISCA. -
Low-dimensional Style Token Control for Hyperarticulated Speech Synthesis. In proceedings of
Interspeech 2024.
Nishihara, M., Wells, D., Richmond, K., Pine, A. 2024. ISCA. -
Experimental evaluation of MOS, AB and BWS listening test designs. In proceedings of
Interspeech 2024.
Wells, D., Blanco, A., Valentini, C., Cooper, E., Pine, A., Yamagishi, J., Richmond, K. 2024. ISCA. -
ReadAlong Studio Web Interface for Digital Interactive Storytelling. In proceedings of
8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.
Pine, A., Huggins-Daines, D., Joanis, E., Littell, P., Tessier, M., Torkornoo, D., Knowles, R., Kuhn, R., Lothian, D. 2023. ACL 2023. -
ReadAlong Studio: Practical Zero-Shot Text-Speech Alignment for Indigenous Language Audiobooks. In proceedings of
SIGUL2022 @ LREC2022.
Littell, P., Joanis, E., Pine, A., Tessier, M., Huggins-Daines, D., Torkornoo, D. 2022. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). -
Gᵢ2Pᵢ: Rule-based, index-preserving grapheme-to-phoneme transformations. In proceedings of
5th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages.
Pine, A., Littell, P., Joanis, E., Huggins-Daines, D., Cox, C., Davis, F., Santos, E., Srikanth, S., Torkornoo, D., Yu, S. 2022. ComputEl-5. -
Requirements and motivations of low-resource speech synthesis for language revitalization. In proceedings of
60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Pine, A., Wells, D., Brinklow, N., Littell, P., Richmond, K. 2022. ACL 2022. -
The Indigenous Languages Technology Project at NRC Canada: an empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software.
Technical Report.
Kuhn, R., Davis, F., Désilets, A., Joanis, E., Kazantseva, A., Knowles, R., Littell, P., Lothian, D., Pine, A., Running Wolf, C., Santos, E., Stewart, D., Boulianne, G., Vishwa, G., Maracle, O., Martin, A., Cox, C., Junker, M., Sammons, O., Torkornoo, D., Brinklow, N., Child, S., Farley, B., Huggins-Daines, D., Rosenblum, D., Souter, H. 2020. National Research Council Canada. -
Indigenous Language Technologies & Language Reclamation in Canada. In proceedings of
International Conference Language Technologies for All (LT4All): Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide.
Brinklow, N., Littell, P., Lothian, D., Pine, A., Souter, H. 2020. UNESCO. -
Using technology to help revitalize Indigenous languages. In
the Oxford University Press Blog.
Turin, M., Pine, A. 2019. Oxford University Press. -
Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes. In proceedings of
COLING: The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
Littell, P., Kazantseva, A., Kuhn, R., Pine, A., Arppe, A., Cox, C., Junker, M. 2018. -
Kawennón:nis: the Wordmaker for Kanyen'kéha (Ohsweken Mohawk). In proceedings of
COLING: The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
Kazantseva, A., Maracle, B., Maracle, R., Pine, A. 2018. -
Seeing the Heiltsuk Orthography from Font Encoding through to Unicode: A Case Study Using Convertextract. In proceedings of
CCURL 2018: The 3rd Workshop on Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages.
Pine, A., Turin, M. 2018. European Language Resources Association. -
Doing Phonological Corpus Analysis in a Fieldwork Context.
Wa7 xweysás i nqwaluttenhíha: He loves the peoples' languages. Essays in honour of Henry Davis.
Hall, K., Pine, A., Schwan, M. 2018. University of British Columbia. -
Three Gitksan texts.
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics.
Forbes, C., Davis, H., Schwan, M., Gitksan Research Lab, 2017. University of British Columbia. -
Waldayu and Waldayu Mobile: Modern digital dictionary interfaces for endangered languages. In proceedings of
ComputEL-2: The 2nd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages.
Littell, P., Pine, A., Davis, H. 2017. -
Language Revitalization.
Oxford Research Encylopedia of Linguistics.
Pine, A., Turin, M. 2017. Oxford University Press.
Presentations
Below are some guest lectures, workshops and other presentations I have given. The list is scrollable.
| Title | Location | Presenters | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language Revitalization & Speech Technology | Knowledge, Information and Technology Services (KITS)
Virtual |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2023 |
| Language Revitalization & Speech Technology | ASTU 402 Living Language: Science & Society Guest Lecture
Virtual (University of British Columbia) |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2023 |
| Interactive Storytelling & Practical Zero-Shot Text-Speech Alignment using ReadAlong-Studio | Lanfrica Talk Series
Virtual (Masakhane) |
Littell, P.
Pine, A. |
Talk | 2023 |
| “Watch me Speak!” Interactive Storytelling using ReadAlong-Studio | Linguistics Department
Virtual (University of California Santa Barbara) |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2023 |
| “Watch me Speak!” Interactive Storytelling using ReadAlong-Studio | ICLDC 2023: Centering Justice in Language Work
Virtual (University of Hawai'i) |
Pine, A.
Huggins-Daines, D. Joanis, E. Littell, P. Tessier, M. Torkornoo, D. |
Workshop | 2022 |
| “Watch me Speak!” Interactive Storytelling using ReadAlong-Studio | Community Workshop for Indigenous Language Technology (CWILTs Series)
Virtual (National Research Council) |
Pine, A.
Huggins-Daines, D. Joanis, E. Littell, P. Tessier, M. Torkornoo, D. |
Workshop | 2022 |
| Developing Speech & Language Technologies for Indigenous Language Revitalization | Domain Adaptation Group
University of Toronto |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2022 |
| Requirements and Motivations of Low-Resource Speech Synthesis for Language Revitalization | Centre for Speech Technology Research
Edinburgh |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2022 |
| Gᵢ2Pᵢ: Rule-based, index-preserving grapheme-to-phoneme transformations | ComputEL-5
Dublin |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2022 |
| Requirements and Motivations of Low-Resource Speech Synthesis for Language Revitalization | Best Papers Award Session Plenary at ACL 2022
Dublin |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2022 |
| Speech Technology & Language Reclamation | FNEL 180
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2022 |
| Low Resource Speech Synthesis | NLP Seminar
National Research Council Canada |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2021 |
| G2P (grapheme-to-phoneme) the 'what', 'so what', and 'now what' | Continual Workshops in Indigenous Language Technology (CWILTs)
Virtual |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2020 |
| Language Revitalization & Technology | ASTU 402
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2020 |
| Lexicography, Language Revitalization & Mother Tongues Dictionaries | FNEL 382
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2020 |
| Language Technology & Language Reclamation | FNEL 180
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2020 |
| Readalongs: Automatic alignment of speech and text for Indigenous language audiobooks | 52nd Algonquian Conference
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Huggins-Daines, D.
Littell, P. Pine, A. Joanis, E. |
Talk | 2020 |
| Developing technology to support Indigenous language revitalization in Canada | Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR)
University of Edinburgh |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2019 |
| Canadian National Research Council's Indigenous Language Technology Project | International Conference on Language Technologies for All
UNESCO HQ, Paris |
Pine, A.
Brinklow, N. Souter, H. Lothian, D. |
Poster | 2019 |
| ReadAlong Studio: Zero-shot Text/Speech Alignment for Indigenous Language Audiobooks | Ottawa AI
NRC Sussex, Ottawa |
Daines, D.
Littell, P. Pine, A. Joanis, E. Torkornoo, D. |
System demonstration | 2019 |
| Supplementing text-based Indigenous language applications with synthetic speech | Ottawa AI
NRC Sussex, Ottawa |
Pine, A.
Kazantseva, A. |
Poster | 2019 |
| Kawennón:nis the Word Maker for Kanyen'kéha | Kanyenn'kéha Mohawk Class
Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na, Tyendinaga |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2019 |
| Kawennón:nis the Word Maker for Kanyen'kéha | Kanyen'kéha Mohawk 101R
Renison University College at University of Waterloo |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2019 |
| Language Revitalization & Technology | ASTU 402 - Living Language: Science & Society
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2019 |
| Language Revitalization, technology, and making the most of your undergraduate experience | FNEL 180
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2019 |
| Language Revitalization & the Role of Technology | Nerd Nite YYJ
Victoria Event Centre |
Pine, A. | Talk | 2019 |
| UBC Alumni Panel | 50th Anniversay of the UBC Linguistics Department
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Panel discussion | 2019 |
| Mohawk O'Clock: Limited Domain Speech Synthesis in Kanyen'kéha | ICLDC 6
University of Hawaii |
Pine, A.
Littell, P. Maracle, R. |
Technology showcase | 2019 |
| Kawennón:nis: An Online Tool for Learning Verbal Morphology in Kanyen'kéha | ICLDC 6
University of Hawaii |
Kazantseva, A.
Brant, R. Maracle, O. Maracle, R. Pine, A. |
Technology showcase | 2019 |
| Digital Kinesthetic Learning and the Gitksan Pronominal Paradigm | ICLDC 6
University of Hawaii |
Pine, A. | Presentation | 2019 |
| How to Make a 'Mother Tongues' Digital Dictionary | ICLDC 6
University of Hawaii |
Pine, A.
Turin, M. |
Workshop | 2019 |
| An Introduction to Gitksan Research | LING 372 Guest Lecture
University of Victoria |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2018 |
| Developing Digital Tools for Language Revitalization: Demystifying Coding, Apps, and Web Platforms | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Tokyo, Japan |
Pine, A.
Turin, M. |
Workshop | 2018 |
| Developing Digital Tools for Language Revitalization: Demystifying Coding, Apps, and Web Platforms | CoLang
University of Florida |
Pine, A.
Turin, M. |
Workshop | 2018 |
| Kawennón:nis: The Wordmaker for Kanyén'keha | Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Immersion School
Ohsweken, Ontario |
Kazantseva, A.
Pine, A. |
Presentation | 2018 |
| Seeing the Heiltsuk Orthography from Font Encoding to Unicode: A Case Study Using Convertextract | Conference on Collaboration and Computing of Under Resourced Languages
Miyazaki, Japan |
Pine, A. | Conference | 2018 |
| Ama silkw sa | Gitksan Elders Meeting
Gitksan Elder's Center. Gitanmaax, B.C |
Pine, A. | Presentation | 2018 |
| A multi-dialectal Ayajuthem talking dictionary |
Sliammon, B.C |
Pine, A. | Presentation | 2018 |
| An Introduction to Gitksan Research | LING 372 Guest Lecture
University of Victoria |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2018 |
| Digital Kinesthetic Learning and the Gitksan Pronominal Paradigm | Research in Indigenous Languages and Linguistics
University of Victoria |
Pine, A. | Presentation | 2018 |
| Practical Phonetics | Adult Gitxsan Class
Gitsegukla, & Terrace, B.C |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2018 |
| Practical Phonetics | Adult Gitxsan Class
Gitanmaax, B.C |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2017 |
| A visual presentation with Aidan Pine: The possibilities of our new app | Ayajuthem language conference
Sliammon, B.C |
Pine, A. | Conference | 2017 |
| Sim ayeehl k'uuhl | FNEL 180 Guest Lecture
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2017 |
| Ama silkw sa | Gitksan Elders Meeting
Gitksan Elder's Center. Gitanmaax, B.C |
Pine, A. | Presentation | 2017 |
| Dim liseewis Xsiwis g̲ant Sginist wil wihl hahlaalst sit'aadiit | Gitksan Language Symposium
Gitksan Wet'suwet'en Education Society. Hazelton, B.C. |
Smith, J.
Pine, A. |
Conference | 2017 |
| Lexicography for Endangered Languages | FNEL 382 Guest Lecture
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2017 |
| Mobile App Development | BC Breath of Life Institute
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Workshop | 2017 |
| Introducing Waldayu & Waldayu Mobile | ComputEL-2: The 2nd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages
University of Hawaii |
Pine, A. | Conference | 2017 |
| Making the most of undergraduate research | FNEL 180 Guest Lecture
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2016 |
| Mobilizing Language Data: An Endangered Language Dictionary App | Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Conference | 2016 |
| 'Nit gwihl Jabisi'm | FNEL 180 Guest Lecture
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Lecture | 2015 |
| Connecting Linguistics to Language Learners: a Lesson Plan for Gitksan | Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Conference | 2015 |
| Preferential Encliticization in Gitksan | Linguistics Department
University of British Columbia |
Pine, A. | Presentation | 2014 |
| Quantifier Scope in Gitksan | Gitksan Research Group Research Seminar
University of British Columbia |
Barois, M.
Bicevskis, K. Cheng, K. Pine, A. |
Presentation | 2014 |
This site
There were a lot of really cool CV templates and things out there, but I ended up building my own because I wanted something that was:
a) static, so I could host for free on GitHub Pages
b) able to generate LaTeX
c) pulled from simple markup like yaml
So, I wrote my CV data in yaml, and use Flask, Frozen-Flask, Jinja2, Skeleton and Fabric to generate a static site and LaTeX CV. I host for free on GitHub, use Cloudflare for free SSL and Mailgun for free email. I slapped an MIT license on the code, so if you think it would be useful to you, go for it!
Update: Waaaay back in the day, like 3 years ago (🤦) Jamstack was really only just starting to gain popularity, and so building a custom static-site generator like this seemed reasonable. If I was starting now, I probably wouldn't build this site this way. I'd probably use something like Hugo instead.