Py-Elotl: A Python NLP package for the languages of Mexico

Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Robert Pugh, Victor Mijangos, Diego Barriga Martínez, Paul Aguilar, Mikel Segura, Paola Innes, Javier Santillan, Cynthia Montaño, Francis Tyers


Abstract
This work presents Py-elotl, a suite of tools and resources in Python for processing text in several indigenous languages spoken in Mexico. These resources include parallel corpora, linguistic taggers/analyzers, and orthographic normalization tools. This work aims to develop essential resources to support language pre-processing and linguistic research, and the future creation of more complete downstream applications that could be useful for the speakers and enhance the visibility of these languages. The current version supports language groups such as Nahuatl, Otomi, Mixtec, and Huave. This project is open-source and freely available for use and collaboration
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2025.americasnlp-1.5
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Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)
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May
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Manuel Mager, Abteen Ebrahimi, Robert Pugh, Shruti Rijhwani, Katharina Von Der Wense, Luis Chiruzzo, Rolando Coto-Solano, Arturo Oncevay
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Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Robert Pugh, Victor Mijangos, Diego Barriga Martínez, Paul Aguilar, Mikel Segura, Paola Innes, Javier Santillan, Cynthia Montaño, and Francis Tyers. 2025. Py-Elotl: A Python NLP package for the languages of Mexico. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), pages 38–47, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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