@inproceedings{gessler-von-der-wense-2024-nlp,
    title = "{NLP} for Language Documentation: Two Reasons for the Gap between Theory and Practice",
    author = "Gessler, Luke  and
      von der Wense, Katharina",
    editor = "Mager, Manuel  and
      Ebrahimi, Abteen  and
      Rijhwani, Shruti  and
      Oncevay, Arturo  and
      Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Pugh, Robert  and
      von der Wense, Katharina",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2024)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.americasnlp-1.1",
    pages = "1--6",
    abstract = "Both NLP researchers and linguists have expressed a desire to use language technologies in language documentation, but most documentary work still proceeds without them, presenting a lost opportunity to hasten the preservation of the world{'}s endangered languages, such as those spoken in Latin America. In this work, we empirically measure two factors that have previously been identified as explanations of this low utilization: curricular offerings in graduate programs, and rates of interdisciplinary collaboration in publications related to NLP in language documentation. Our findings verify the claim that interdisciplinary training and collaborations are scarce and support the view that interdisciplinary curricular offerings facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations.",
}