Papers by Hilaria Cruz
A Resource for Studying Chatino Verbal Morphology (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a recent study focused on the verbal inflectional morphology of a mesoamerican language, San Juan Quiahije Chatino . low-resource endangered languages are left behind, while high-resourced ones are left out . a new approach to document endangered languages is needed to ensure language use continues . |
| Approach: | They present a resource focusing on the verbal inflectional morphology of a mesoamerican language . they use morphological inflection tables and baseline results to assess the language's morphologies . |
| Outcome: | The proposed resource focuses on the verbal inflectional morphology of a mesoamerican language . the authors show that the results are consistent with the current state of the art in the field . |
Evaluation Phonemic Transcription of Low-Resource Tonal Languages for Language Documentation (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Language documentation involves recording the speech of native speakers. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a neural network architecture to model phonemes and tones versus modelling them separately. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves efficiency, minimizes typographical errors and maintains transcription faithfulness to acoustic signal while highlighting phonetic and phonemic facts for linguistic consideration. |
UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology (2022.lrec-1)
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Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Omer Goldman, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Witold Kieraś, Gábor Bella, Brian Leonard, Garrett Nicolai, Kyle Gorman, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Maria Ryskina, Sabrina Mielke, Elena Budianskaya, Charbel El-Khaissi, Tiago Pimentel, Michael Gasser, William Abbott Lane, Mohit Raj, Matt Coler, Jaime Rafael Montoya Samame, Delio Siticonatzi Camaiteri, Esaú Zumaeta Rojas, Didier López Francis, Arturo Oncevay, Juan López Bautista, Gema Celeste Silva Villegas, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Adam Ek, David Guriel, Peter Dirix, Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Andrey Scherbakov, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Roberto Zariquiey, Karina Sheifer, Sofya Ganieva, Hilaria Cruz, Ritván Karahóǧa, Stella Markantonatou, George Pavlidis, Matvey Plugaryov, Elena Klyachko, Ali Salehi, Candy Angulo, Jatayu Baxi, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Natalia Krizhanovskaya, Elizabeth Salesky, Clara Vania, Sardana Ivanova, Jennifer White, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Josef Valvoda, Ran Zmigrod, Paula Czarnowska, Irene Nikkarinen, Aelita Salchak, Brijesh Bhatt, Christopher Straughn, Zoey Liu, Jonathan North Washington, Yuval Pinter, Duygu Ataman, Marcin Wolinski, Totok Suhardijanto, Anna Yablonskaya, Niklas Stoehr, Hossep Dolatian, Zahroh Nuriah, Shyam Ratan, Francis M. Tyers, Edoardo M. Ponti, Grant Aiton, Aryaman Arora, Richard J. Hatcher, Ritesh Kumar, Jeremiah Young, Daria Rodionova, Anastasia Yemelina, Taras Andrushko, Igor Marchenko, Polina Mashkovtseva, Alexandra Serova, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Maria Nepomniashchaya, Fausto Giunchiglia, Eleanor Chodroff, Mans Hulden, Miikka Silfverberg, Arya D. McCarthy, David Yarowsky, Ryan Cotterell, Reut Tsarfaty, Ekaterina Vylomova
| Challenge: | The Universal Morphology project provides broad-coverage instantiated morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a language-independent feature schema for rich morphological annotation and a type-level resource of annotated data in diverse languages realizing that schema. |
| Outcome: | The proposed schema has added 66 new languages, including 24 endangered languages. |
Endangered Languages meet Modern NLP (2020.coling-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | This tutorial will focus on NLP for endangered languages documentation and revitalization. |
| Approach: | This tutorial will focus on NLP for endangered languages documentation and revitalization . the goal is to motivate more NLP practitioners to work towards this important direction . |
| Outcome: | This tutorial will acquaint attendees with the process and the challenges of language documentation and revitalization. |