Title
Representation of Yine (Arawak) Morphology by Finite State Transducer Formalism
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Abstract
We represent the complexity of Yine (Arawak) morphology with a finite state transducer (FST) based morphological analyzer. Yine is a low-resource indigenous polysynthetic Peruvian language spoken by approximately 3,000 people and is classified as ‘definitely endangered’ by UNESCO. We review Yine morphology focusing on morphophonology, possessive constructions and verbal predicates. Then we develop FSTs to model these components proposing techniques to solve challenging problems such as complex patterns of incorporating open and closed category arguments. This is a work in progress and we still have more to do in the development and verification of our analyzer. Our analyzer will serve both as a tool to better document the Yine language and as a component of natural language processing (NLP) applications such as spell checking and correction.
Start page
102
End page
112
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Lingüística
Antropología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85123930545
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, AmericasNLP 2021
ISBN of the container
9781954085442
Conference
1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, AmericasNLP 2021
Source funding
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica
Sponsor(s)
of non-verbal predicate, nominalizer, and verbal-We are grateful to the bilingual teachers from izer functions to address non-verbal predicate and NOPOKI Nimia Acho and Remigio Zapata. Simi-change of category errors. larly, we acknowledge the research grant of the Cardenas and Zeman (2018) obtained 78.9% av-“Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e In-erage coverage over multiple domains on test data novación Tecnológica” (CONCYTEC, Peru) un-for a completed FST morphology of an Amazonian der the contract 183-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-polysynthetic language. Our ≈15% coverage in MU.
We are grateful to the bilingual teachers from NOPOKI Nimia Acho and Remigio Zapata. Similarly, we acknowledge the research grant of the ?Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnolog?a e In-novaci?n Tecnol?gica? (CONCYTEC, Peru) under the contract 183-2018-FONDECYT-BM-IADT-MU.
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