Kawennón:nis: the Wordmaker for Kanyen’kéha
Anna Kazantseva, Owennatekha Brian Maracle, Ronkwe’tiyóhstha Josiah Maracle, Aidan Pine
Abstract
In this paper we describe preliminary work on Kawennón:nis, a verb conjugator for Kanyen’kéha (Ohsweken dialect). The project is the result of a collaboration between Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Kanyen’kéha immersion school and the Canadian National Research Council’s Indigenous Language Technology lab. The purpose of Kawennón:nis is to build on the educational successes of the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa school and develop a tool that assists students in learning how to conjugate verbs in Kanyen’kéha; a skill that is essential to mastering the language. Kawennón:nis is implemented with both web and mobile front-ends that communicate with an application programming interface that in turn communicates with a symbolic language model implemented as a finite state transducer. Eventually, it will serve as a foundation for several other applications for both Kanyen’kéha and other Iroquoian languages.- Anthology ID:
- W18-4806
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Editor:
- Judith L. Klavans
- Venue:
- PYLO
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 53–64
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-4806
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Anna Kazantseva, Owennatekha Brian Maracle, Ronkwe’tiyóhstha Josiah Maracle, and Aidan Pine. 2018. Kawennón:nis: the Wordmaker for Kanyen’kéha. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages, pages 53–64, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Kawennón:nis: the Wordmaker for Kanyen’kéha (Kazantseva et al., PYLO 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-dup-bibkey/W18-4806.pdf