Research translated into meaningful action

MinNa LProc R&D Lab advances language documentation, natural language processing, and responsible artificial intelligence for Philippine and Mindanao languages. Our work connects research, community engagement, technology development, and capacity building.

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Programs The laboratory’s sustained research, development, and capacity-building areas. Initiatives Current platforms, resources, and community-facing technology efforts. Services Research, technical, training, and collaboration support offered by MinNa.
Research Programs

These programs establish the long-term direction of MinNa’s research, community engagement, technology development, and researcher formation.

Program

Indigenous Language Documentation and Digital Preservation

Supports the responsible collection, digitization, organization, validation, and preservation of language resources in collaboration with language communities.

  • Community-informed documentation and language resource collection
  • Digitization and structured storage of text, lexical, and related language data
  • Resource validation, attribution, and responsible dissemination
Communities and research partners Explore communities
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Language Technology Research and Development

Develops natural language processing tools, language technologies, and digital resources for Philippine languages, particularly low-resource and underrepresented languages.

  • Machine translation and multilingual language processing
  • Dialogue systems, text processing, and language resource tools
  • Model evaluation, linguistic analysis, and prototype validation
Researchers and technology teams View related projects
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Indigenous Languages in AI and Language Models

Investigates how language models and artificial intelligence systems can better represent, support, and responsibly include Indigenous and low-resource languages.

  • Language model experimentation, adaptation, and benchmarking
  • Corpus development for low-resource language inclusion
  • Responsible AI practices for culturally and linguistically grounded systems
AI researchers and institutions Read our research
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Research Capacity Building, Mentorship, and Training

Strengthens the local research community by supporting students, faculty members, and partner institutions in NLP, language technology, and responsible AI.

  • Research mentoring and technical guidance
  • Workshops, seminars, and applied learning activities
  • Collaborative research formation and publication support
Students, faculty, and partners Meet the researchers
Strategic Initiatives

MinNa’s initiatives translate research into accessible digital platforms, language resources, and collaborative activities that support communities, researchers, and institutions.

Language Technology

Project iWag

A language technology initiative focused on Filipino–Cebuano machine translation and multilingual language support.

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Digital Resource

Interactive Indigenous Community Map

An interactive resource that presents province-level information about Indigenous Peoples and language communities, beginning with Region XI.

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Language Resources

Mindanao Language Resources and Parallel Corpora

Development and dissemination of structured datasets, parallel corpora, lexical resources, and related materials for low-resource language research.

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Collaboration

Community and Institutional Research Collaboration

Collaborative research, validation, training, and technology development with communities, academic institutions, and government or development partners.

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Laboratory Services

MinNa works with students, researchers, institutions, government agencies, and community partners on projects aligned with the laboratory’s expertise and mandate.

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NLP and AI Research Consultation

Technical consultation on research problems, study design, language technology methods, model selection, evaluation, and responsible AI considerations.

Research Design Technical Review
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Corpus, Dataset, and Language Resource Development

Guidance and collaborative support for collecting, cleaning, organizing, annotating, validating, documenting, and preparing language datasets.

Corpus Building Annotation Data Documentation
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NLP Prototype and Language Technology Development

Collaborative design and development of research prototypes such as translation tools, text-processing systems, dialogue systems, and language resource applications.

Prototyping Evaluation Deployment Guidance
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Workshops, Seminars, and Capacity-Building Activities

Customized learning activities on NLP, machine translation, language models, AI agents, research methods, and responsible development.

Training Hands-on Workshops
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Thesis, Capstone, Internships, and Research Mentoring

Mentoring and technical guidance for student researchers working on NLP, machine learning, language resources, and related computing research.

Mentoring Research Feedback
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Partnership and Project Co-development

Joint problem framing, proposal development, research implementation, validation, and knowledge-sharing with aligned institutional and community partners.

Joint Research Proposal Support Co-development
Engagements are considered according to alignment with MinNa’s mandate, available expertise and resources, institutional requirements, research ethics, data governance, and appropriate community consultation or consent.
Who We Work With

MinNa welcomes conversations with groups whose proposed work supports language documentation, language technology, low-resource NLP, responsible AI, researcher development, or community-centered innovation.

Language Communities Academic Institutions Students and Researchers Government Agencies Development Organizations Technology and Innovation Teams

Share your research need, training request, proposed collaboration, or community-centered language initiative with the MinNa team.

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