Pilar Valenzuela


2025

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Universal Dependencies for Amahuaca
Candy Angulo | Pilar Valenzuela | Roberto Zariquiey
Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages

This paper presents the creation of a Universal Dependency (UD) treebank for Amahuaca (Peru), marking the first UD treebank within the Headwaters subbranch of the Panoan family, spoken mostly in Peru and Brazil. While the UD guidelines provided a general framework for our annotations, language-specific decisions were necessary due to the rich morphology of the Amahuaca language. The paper also describes specific constructions to initiate a discussion on several general UD annotation guidelines, particularly those concerning clitics and morpheme-level dependencies.