WordNet-QU: Development of a Lexical Database for Quechua Varieties
Nelsi Melgarejo, Rodolfo Zevallos, Hector Gomez, John E. Ortega
Abstract
In the effort to minimize the risk of extinction of a language, linguistic resources are fundamental. Quechua, a low-resource language from South America, is a language spoken by millions but, despite several efforts in the past, still lacks the resources necessary to build high-performance computational systems. In this article, we present WordNet-QU which signifies the inclusion of Quechua in a well-known lexical database called wordnet. We propose WordNet-QU to be included as an extension to wordnet after demonstrating a manually-curated collection of multiple digital resources for lexical use in Quechua. Our work uses the synset alignment algorithm to compare Quechua to its geographically nearest high-resource language, Spanish. Altogether, we propose a total of 28,582 unique synset IDs divided according to region like so: 20510 for Southern Quechua, 5993 for Central Quechua, 1121 for Northern Quechua, and 958 for Amazonian Quechua.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.coling-1.390
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4429–4433
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.390
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Nelsi Melgarejo, Rodolfo Zevallos, Hector Gomez, and John E. Ortega. 2022. WordNet-QU: Development of a Lexical Database for Quechua Varieties. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4429–4433, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- WordNet-QU: Development of a Lexical Database for Quechua Varieties (Melgarejo et al., COLING 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2022.coling-1.390.pdf