Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo
Roberto Zariquiey, Claudia Alvarado, Ximena Echevarría, Luisa Gomez, Rosa Gonzales, Mariana Illescas, Sabina Oporto, Frederic Blum, Arturo Oncevay, Javier Vera
Abstract
In this paper, we launch a new Universal Dependencies treebank for an endangered language from Amazonia: Kakataibo, a Panoan language spoken in Peru. We first discuss the collaborative methodology implemented, which proved effective to create a treebank in the context of a Computational Linguistic course for undergraduates. Then, we describe the general details of the treebank and the language-specific considerations implemented for the proposed annotation. We finally conduct some experiments on part-of-speech tagging and syntactic dependency parsing. We focus on monolingual and transfer learning settings, where we study the impact of a Shipibo-Konibo treebank, another Panoan language resource.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lrec-1.409
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3840–3851
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.409
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Roberto Zariquiey, Claudia Alvarado, Ximena Echevarría, Luisa Gomez, Rosa Gonzales, Mariana Illescas, Sabina Oporto, Frederic Blum, Arturo Oncevay, and Javier Vera. 2022. Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3840–3851, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo (Zariquiey et al., LREC 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/2022.lrec-1.409.pdf
- Code
- tarotis/building-an-endangered-language-resource-in-the-classroom