@inproceedings{afanasev-2026-quantitative,
    title = "Quantitative Lect Description: A Case Study of Lemko from the Field Data of 1920s-1930s",
    author = "Afanasev, Ilia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on {NLP} Applications to Field Linguistics",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/manual-author-scripts/2026.fieldmatters-1.6/",
    pages = "46--59",
    abstract = "While qualitative descriptions (in the form of reference grammars) and benchmarks for low-resource languages are becoming increasingly widespread, computational linguists do not often use quantitative methods to describe a new lect rather than a new model. This paper intends to close this lacuna. The case study is a Lemko text transcribed at the beginning of the twentieth century. Using morphosyntactic tagging and topic modelling, the study demonstrates areal influences and archaic features of the lect. Fine-grained evaluation significantly assists in identifying subtle patterns that are not readily apparent through traditional metrics such as accuracy score. The results highlight the necessity of a more detailed analysis of model performance, which may yield more linguistically significant results than a purely manual check. This information is present in the resulting dataset, which can be used for further investigation into the structural features of the Lemko lect."
}