Language Documentation
Record, collect, and preserve linguistic knowledge in partnership with language communities.
MinNa advances Natural Language Processing, digital language resources, and responsible AI for Philippine, indigenous, and low-resource languages—transforming linguistic knowledge into technologies that serve people and communities.
Davao City, Philippines
Community-engaged research
Inclusive AI
Research Laboratory
Building language technology capacity in Mindanao
Community Engagement
Working with language communities through respectful
collaboration
Language Documentation
Creating digital resources for underrepresented languages
Language AI
Turning linguistic knowledge into practical AI-enabled
systems
Community-centered AI
Community-informed research and development for responsible
AI
Community-centered AI
Community-informed research and development for responsible
AI
Community-centered AI
Community-informed research and development for responsible
AI
Why MinNa Matters
Preserving language while expanding participation in AI
MinNa LProc R&D Lab develops advanced Natural Language Processing tools, technologies, digital language resources, and AI-driven solutions for endangered, underrepresented, and low-resource Philippine languages.
Its work combines language documentation, resource development, machine translation, dialogue systems, language-model research, researcher training, and strategic policy development. The goal is not only to preserve language—but to ensure that communities are meaningfully represented in the digital and AI era.
Create lasting language resources
Collect, digitize, curate, and share
linguistic data for research and preservation.
Advance language AI
Study models and architectures for
multilingual and low-resource contexts.
Grow Mindanao-based expertise
Train researchers, students, developers,
and interdisciplinary collaborators.
Shape responsible innovation
Support roadmaps, policies, and
community-centered technology development.
What We Do
Research and development across the language AI lifecycle
MinNa connects linguistic knowledge, computational methods, and community collaboration to create sustainable language technologies.
Digital Resource Development
Build corpora, lexicons, translations, annotations, and reusable language datasets.
NLP and Language AI
Develop machine translation, dialogue systems, language models, and responsible AI applications.
Capacity and Ecosystem Building
Mentor researchers, strengthen collaboration, and advance strategic language technology roadmaps.
Research in Action
Explore MinNa’s language technologies and resources
Discover platforms, tools, and research outputs developed to support translation, language processing, and low-resource NLP.
Translation Platform
Project iWag
A mobile-web bidirectional neural machine translation system for Filipino and Cebuano.
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Open Research Tool
Cebuano NLTK
A foundational language-processing toolkit designed to support Cebuano NLP development.
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Language Resources
Parallel Corpora
Explore language resources supporting Filipino–Cebuano and community-centered low-resource language research.
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Community at the Center
Research grounded in people, place, and language
MinNa’s work begins with respectful engagement and grows through collaboration with language communities, researchers, students, and institutional partners.
Language Community
Manobo
Language Documentation
Kagan
Research Capacity
MinNa R&D Laboratory
Join us in building a more linguistically inclusive digital future.
Collaborate with MinNa in language documentation, digital resource creation, NLP research, responsible AI, researcher training, and community-centered innovation.
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