| Challenge: | Mi'kmaq is a polysynthetic Indigenous language spoken primarily in Eastern Canada . |
| Approach: | They construct and analyze a web corpus of Mi'kmaq and evaluate several approaches to language modelling . they argue that natural language processing could aid efforts to preserve Indigenous languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed language model is based on a web corpus of Mi'kmaq . the model is well-suited to morphologically-rich languages, the authors argue . |
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