Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno
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2026
Nawatl Context-Free Grammars for Natural Language Processing
Juan Jose Guzman Landa | Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno | Graham Ranger | Miguel Figueroa-Saavedra | Ligia Quintana Torres | Carlos-Emiliano Gonzalez-Gallardo | Luis Gil Moreno Jimenez | Martha Lorena Avendaño Garrido
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Juan Jose Guzman Landa | Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno | Graham Ranger | Miguel Figueroa-Saavedra | Ligia Quintana Torres | Carlos-Emiliano Gonzalez-Gallardo | Luis Gil Moreno Jimenez | Martha Lorena Avendaño Garrido
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
The aim of this article is to introduce Context-Free Grammars (CFG) for the Nawatl language. Nawatl is an Amerindian language of the 𝜋-language type, i.e. a language with few digital resources. For this reason the corpora available for the learning of Large Language Models (LLMs) are virtually non-existent, posing a significant challenge. The goal is to produce a substantial number of syntactically valid artificial Nawatl sentences and thereby to expand the corpora for the purpose of learning embeddings (static models or probably LLMs). For this objective, we introduce two new Nawatl CFGs and use them in generative mode. Thanks to these grammars, it is possible to expand Nawatl corpus significantly and subsequently to use it to learn embeddings (such as FastText) and to evaluate their relevance in semantic similarity tasks. The results show an improvement compared to the results obtained using only the original corpus without artificial expansion, and also demonstrate that economic embeddings often perform better than some LLMs.