| Download | - View final version: Fitting a square peg into a round hole: creating a UniMorph dataset of Kanien'kéha verbs (PDF, 297 KiB)
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| Link | https://aclanthology.org/2024.computel-1.7.pdf |
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| Author | Search for: Kazantseva, Anna1; Search for: Martin, Akwiratékha1; Search for: Michelson, Karin , Koenig, Jean-Pierre |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. Digital Technologies
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, March 21-22, 2024, St. Julian's, Malta |
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| Abstract | This paper describes efforts to annotate a dataset of verbs in the Iroquoian language Kanien'kéha (a.k.a. Mohawk) using the UniMorph schema (Batsuren et al. 2022a). It is based on the output of a symbolic model - a hand-built verb conjugator. Morphological constituents of each verb are automatically annotated with UniMorph tags. Overall the process was smooth but some central features of the language did not fall neatly into the schema which resulted in a large number of custom tags and a somewhat ad hoc mapping process. We think the same difficulties are likely to arise for other Iroquoian languages and perhaps other North American language families. This paper describes our decision making process with respect to Kanien’kéha and reports preliminary results of morphological induction experiments using the dataset. |
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| Publication date | 2024-03-21 |
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| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| Record identifier | 1e2f1d4a-e29d-4cca-a8d1-ef6d8aaa1637 |
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| Record created | 2024-04-03 |
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| Record modified | 2024-04-04 |
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