Semi-Automatic construction of a Quechua-Spanish dictionary

Maximiliano Duran, Max Silberztein


Abstract
This paper presents a set of linguistic resources that describes Quechua verbs. We first present a dictionary of 1,444 fundamental Quechua verbs, associated with morpho-syntactic grammars to formalize their inflection and their derivations, that can be used to produce over 2,777,000 conjugated Quechua derived verbal forms. We aligned this list of Quechua verbal forms with the corresponding Spanish dictionary that contains 618,000 conjugated verbal forms, thus producing both a Spanish to Quechua and a Quechua to Spanish dictionary.
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2026.loresmt-1.9
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Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)
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March
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2026
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Rabat, Morocco
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Atul Kr. Ojha, Chao-hong Liu, Ekaterina Vylomova, Flammie Pirinen, Jonathan Washington, Nathaniel Oco, Xiaobing Zhao
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111–118
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Maximiliano Duran and Max Silberztein. 2026. Semi-Automatic construction of a Quechua-Spanish dictionary. In Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026), pages 111–118, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Semi-Automatic construction of a Quechua-Spanish dictionary (Duran & Silberztein, LoResMT 2026)
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