Grove City College students and faculty are using AI to assist in improving translations of the bible.

Computer Science professors Britton Wolfe and Brian Dickinson and their students are working with SIL Global, a faith-based nonprofit that uses machine to learn and develop language solutions to improve lives.

"The Bible has been translated into most widely spoken languages and can reach most people, however, the full Bible is available in only about 10% of all languages," says Dickinson.

He continues, "One of the primary applications of our work is completing the Bible translations in languages where it is partially complete."

Dickinson also states that the work is focused on creating reversible romanizations of non-Latin texts, that will allow existing translation models to improve creating initial translations of the Old Testament in languages that already have a New Testament.

Student-faculty research at Grove City College focused on making the algorithms work efficiently and reduced computing power to benefit missionaries and others in the field who rely on personal laptops to do the work.

Several former and current students that have worked on the project includes, Jonathan Allarassem '24, Allison Harnly '27, Alex Hemmerlin '25, Keith Graybill Jr., Hannah Proctor '26, and John Bauer '27.

Chair and professor of Computer Science Dr. Brian Dellinger says, "I think the work they're doing is a great model of what we want our students to do: to be thoughtful about how their skills as computer scientists can contribute uniquely to the Kingdom of God."