Educational Tools for Mapuzugun

Cristian Ahumada, Claudio Gutierrez, Antonios Anastasopoulos


Abstract
Mapuzugun is the language of the Mapuche people. Due to political and historical reasons, its number of speakers has decreased and the language has been excluded from the educational system in Chile and Argentina. For this reason, it is very important to support the revitalization of the Mapuzugun in all spaces and media of society. In this work we present a tool towards supporting educational activities of Mapuzugun, tailored to the characteristics of the language. The tool consists of three parts: design and development of an orthography detector and converter; a morphological analyzer; and an informal translator. We also present a case study with Mapuzugun students showing promising results. Short abstract in Mapuzugun: Tüfachi küzaw pegelfi kiñe zugun küzawpeyüm kelluaetew pu mapuzugun chillkatufe kimal kizu tañi zugun.
Anthology ID:
2022.bea-1.23
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022)
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, Washington
Editors:
Ekaterina Kochmar, Jill Burstein, Andrea Horbach, Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Nitin Madnani, Anaïs Tack, Victoria Yaneva, Zheng Yuan, Torsten Zesch
Venue:
BEA
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SIGEDU
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
183–196
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.23
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.bea-1.23
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Cite (ACL):
Cristian Ahumada, Claudio Gutierrez, and Antonios Anastasopoulos. 2022. Educational Tools for Mapuzugun. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022), pages 183–196, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Educational Tools for Mapuzugun (Ahumada et al., BEA 2022)
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