Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10343v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:58:56 GMT
• Title: Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo
• Authors: Roberto Zariquiey, Claudia Alvarado, Ximena Echevarria, Luisa Gomez, Rosa Gonzales, Mariana Illescas, Sabina Oporto, Frederic Blum, Arturo Oncevay, Javier Vera
• Abstract summary: We launch a new Universal Dependencies treebank for an endangered language from Amazonia: Kakataibo, a Panoan language spoken in Peru. We first discuss the collaborative methodology implemented, which proved effective to create a treebank in the context of a Computational Linguistic course for undergraduates.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we launch a new Universal Dependencies treebank for an endangered language from Amazonia: Kakataibo, a Panoan language spoken in Peru. We first discuss the collaborative methodology implemented, which proved effective to create a treebank in the context of a Computational Linguistic course for undergraduates. Then, we describe the general details of the treebank and the language-specific considerations implemented for the proposed annotation. We finally conduct some experiments on part-of-speech tagging and syntactic dependency parsing. We focus on monolingual and transfer learning settings, where we study the impact of a Shipibo-Konibo treebank, another Panoan language resource.

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