Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo

Zariquiey R.; Alvarado C.; Echevarria X.; Gomez L.; Gonzales R.; Illescas M.; Oporto S.; Blum F.; Oncevay A.; Vera J. · 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 (2022)

Resumen

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. © European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú