Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization
St. Lawrence Island Yupik is an endangered language of the Bering Strait region. In this paper, we describe our work on Yupik jointly leveraging computational morphology and linguistic fieldwork, outlining the multilayer virtuous cycle that we continue to refine in our work to document and build too...
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ftunivhawaiimano:oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24917 2023-05-15T15:44:14+02:00 Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization Schreiner, Sylvia L. R. Schwartz, Lane Hunt, Benjamin Chen, Emily 2020-01 18 pages application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24917 en-US eng University of Hawaii Press Schreiner, Sylvia L. R., Lane Schwartz, Benjamin Hunt, & Emily Chen. 2020. Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization. Language Documentation & Conservation 14: 69-86. 1934-5275 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24917 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ CC-BY-NC Yupik computational morphology linguistic fieldwork language documentation language revitalization Article Text 2020 ftunivhawaiimano 2022-07-17T13:30:10Z St. Lawrence Island Yupik is an endangered language of the Bering Strait region. In this paper, we describe our work on Yupik jointly leveraging computational morphology and linguistic fieldwork, outlining the multilayer virtuous cycle that we continue to refine in our work to document and build tools for the language. After developing a preliminary morphological analyzer from an existing pedagogical grammar of Yupik, we used it to help analyze new word forms gathered through fieldwork. While in the field, we augmented the analyzer to include insights into the lexicon, phonology, and morphology of the language as they were gained during elicitation sessions and subsequent data analysis. The analyzer and other tools we have developed are improved by a corpus that continues to grow through our digitization and documentation efforts, and the computational tools in turn allow us to improve and speed those same efforts. Through this process, we have successfully identified previously undescribed lexical, morphological, and phonological processes in Yupik while simultaneously increasing the coverage of the morphological analyzer. Given the polysynthetic nature of Yupik, a high-coverage morphological analyzer is a necessary prerequisite for the development of other high-level computational tools that have been requested by the Yupik community. National Foreign Language Resource Center Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Strait St Lawrence Island St. Lawrence Island Yupik Yupik ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa Bering Strait Lawrence Island ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967) |
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St. Lawrence Island Yupik is an endangered language of the Bering Strait region. In this paper, we describe our work on Yupik jointly leveraging computational morphology and linguistic fieldwork, outlining the multilayer virtuous cycle that we continue to refine in our work to document and build tools for the language. After developing a preliminary morphological analyzer from an existing pedagogical grammar of Yupik, we used it to help analyze new word forms gathered through fieldwork. While in the field, we augmented the analyzer to include insights into the lexicon, phonology, and morphology of the language as they were gained during elicitation sessions and subsequent data analysis. The analyzer and other tools we have developed are improved by a corpus that continues to grow through our digitization and documentation efforts, and the computational tools in turn allow us to improve and speed those same efforts. Through this process, we have successfully identified previously undescribed lexical, morphological, and phonological processes in Yupik while simultaneously increasing the coverage of the morphological analyzer. Given the polysynthetic nature of Yupik, a high-coverage morphological analyzer is a necessary prerequisite for the development of other high-level computational tools that have been requested by the Yupik community. National Foreign Language Resource Center |
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Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization |
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Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization |
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Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization |
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Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization |
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Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization |
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multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization |
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