AI for Interlinearization and POS-tagging: Teaching Linguists to Fish
Olga Kriukova, Katherine Schmirler, Sarah Moeller, Olga Lovick, Inge Genee, Antti Arppe, Alexandra Smith
Abstract
This paper describes the process and learn- ing outcomes of a three-day workshop on ma- chine learning basics for documentary linguists. During this workshop, two groups of linguists working with two Indigenous languages of North America, Blackfoot and Dënë Su ̨łıné, became acquainted with machine learning prin- ciples, explored how machine learning can be used in data processing for under-resourced languages and then applied different machine learning methods for automatic morphologi- cal interlinearization and parts-of-speech tag- ging. As a result, participants discovered paths to greater collaboration between computer sci- ence and documentary linguistics and reflected on how linguists might be enabled to apply ma- chine learning with less dependence on experts.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.computel-main.16
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
- Month:
- March
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Editors:
- Jordan Lachler, Godfred Agyapong, Antti Arppe, Sarah Moeller, Aditi Chaudhary, Shruti Rijhwani, Daisy Rosenblum
- Venues:
- ComputEL | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 139–149
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2025.computel-main.16/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Olga Kriukova, Katherine Schmirler, Sarah Moeller, Olga Lovick, Inge Genee, Antti Arppe, and Alexandra Smith. 2025. AI for Interlinearization and POS-tagging: Teaching Linguists to Fish. In Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pages 139–149, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- AI for Interlinearization and POS-tagging: Teaching Linguists to Fish (Kriukova et al., ComputEL 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2025.computel-main.16.pdf