AMATA CONGRATULATES SALAMASINA FUIMAONO AND RESEARCH TEAM ON AI4LAM AWARD

Washington, Sept. 18 -- Congresswoman Uifa'atali Amata issued the following press release:

Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Uifa'atali Amata is congratulating American Samoa's Salamasina July Fuimaono and her research team on receiving the Best Research Project Award at the 2026 AI4LAM Fantastic Futures conference in Washington, D.C. Image Congresswoman Uifa'atali Amata welcomes Salamasina July Fuimaono of Lauli'i to her Washington, D.C., congressional office during Fuimaono's visit for the 2026 AI4LAM Fantastic Futures conference Fuimaono and fellow researchers Yangyang Chen, Rebecca Fraimow, Kyeongmin Rim, and Owen King received the recognition for their project, "Building AI Tools with Communities: Language Identification for Low-Resour...