Creating Mexican Spanish Language Resources through the Social Service Program

Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz


Abstract
This work presents the path toward the creation of eight Spoken Language Resources under the umbrella of the Mexican Social Service national program. This program asks undergraduate students to donate time and work for the benefit of their society as a requirement to receive their degree. The program has thousands of options for the students who enroll. We show how we created a program which has resulted in the creation of open language resources which now are freely available in different repositories. We estimate that this exercise is equivalent to a budget of more than half a million US dollars. However, since the program is based on retribution from the students to their communities there has not been a necessity of a financial budget.
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2022.nidcp-1.4
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Novel Incentives in Data Collection from People: models, implementations, challenges and results within LREC 2022
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Chris Callison-Burch, Christopher Cieri, James Fiumara, Mark Liberman
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NIDCP
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European Language Resources Association
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20–24
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Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena and Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz. 2022. Creating Mexican Spanish Language Resources through the Social Service Program. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Novel Incentives in Data Collection from People: models, implementations, challenges and results within LREC 2022, pages 20–24, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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