Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor 2021-06 Association for Computational Linguistics Online text conference publication americasnlp-2021-natural https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.0/ qxoRef 1.0: A coreference corpus and mention-pair baseline for coreference resolution in Conchucos Quechua Elizabeth Pankratz author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication pankratz-2021-qxoref 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.1/ 2021-06 1 9 A corpus of K’iche’ annotated for morphosyntactic structure Francis Tyers author Robert Henderson author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication tyers-henderson-2021-corpus 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.2/ 2021-06 10 20 Investigating variation in written forms of Nahuatl using character-based language models Robert Pugh author Francis Tyers author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication pugh-tyers-2021-investigating 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.3/ 2021-06 21 27 Apurinã Universal Dependencies Treebank Jack Rueter author Marília Fernanda Pereira de Freitas author Sidney Da Silva Facundes author Mika Hämäläinen author Niko Partanen author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication rueter-etal-2021-apurina 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.4/ 2021-06 28 33 Automatic Interlinear Glossing for Otomi language Diego Barriga Martínez author Victor Mijangos author Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication barriga-martinez-etal-2021-automatic 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.5/ 2021-06 34 43 A survey of part-of-speech tagging approaches applied to K’iche’ Francis Tyers author Nick Howell author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication tyers-howell-2021-survey 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.6/ 2021-06 44 52 Highland Puebla Nahuatl Speech Translation Corpus for Endangered Language Documentation Jiatong Shi author Jonathan D Amith author Xuankai Chang author Siddharth Dalmia author Brian Yan author Shinji Watanabe author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication shi-etal-2021-highland 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.7/ 2021-06 53 63 End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: Its Impact on the Workflowin Documenting Yoloxóchitl Mixtec Jonathan D Amith author Jiatong Shi author Rey Castillo García author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication amith-etal-2021-end 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.8/ 2021-06 64 80 A finite-state morphological analyser for Paraguayan Guaraní Anastasia Kuznetsova author Francis Tyers author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication kuznetsova-tyers-2021-finite 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.9/ 2021-06 81 89 Morphological Segmentation for Seneca Zoey Liu author Robert Jimerson author Emily Prud’hommeaux author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication liu-etal-2021-morphological 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.10/ 2021-06 90 101 Representation of Yine [Arawak] Morphology by Finite State Transducer Formalism Adriano Ingunza Torres author John Miller author Arturo Oncevay author Roberto Zariquiey Biondi author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication ingunza-torres-etal-2021-representation 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.11/ 2021-06 102 112 Leveraging English Word Embeddings for Semi-Automatic Semantic Classification in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree) Atticus Harrigan author Antti Arppe author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication harrigan-arppe-2021-leveraging 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.12/ 2021-06 113 121 Restoring the Sister: Reconstructing a Lexicon from Sister Languages using Neural Machine Translation Remo Nitschke author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication nitschke-2021-restoring 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.13/ 2021-06 122 130 Expanding Universal Dependencies for Polysynthetic Languages: A Case of St. Lawrence Island Yupik Hyunji Hayley Park author Lane Schwartz author Francis Tyers author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication park-etal-2021-expanding 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.14/ 2021-06 131 142 The More Detail, the Better? – Investigating the Effects of Semantic Ontology Specificity on Vector Semantic Classification with a Plains Cree / nêhiyawêwin Dictionary Daniel Dacanay author Atticus Harrigan author Arok Wolvengrey author Antti Arppe author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication dacanay-etal-2021-detail 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.15/ 2021-06 143 152 Experiments on a Guarani Corpus of News and Social Media Santiago Góngora author Nicolás Giossa author Luis Chiruzzo author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication gongora-etal-2021-experiments 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.16/ 2021-06 153 158 Towards a First Automatic Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation for Inuinnaqtun Ngoc Tan Le author Fatiha Sadat author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication le-sadat-2021-towards 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.17/ 2021-06 159 162 Toward Creation of Ancash Lexical Resources from OCR Johanna Cordova author Damien Nouvel author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication cordova-nouvel-2021-toward 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.18/ 2021-06 163 167 Ayuuk-Spanish Neural Machine Translator Delfino Zacarías Márquez author Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication zacarias-marquez-meza-ruiz-2021-ayuuk 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.19/ 2021-06 168 172 Explicit Tone Transcription Improves ASR Performance in Extremely Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study in Bribri Rolando Coto-Solano author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication coto-solano-2021-explicit 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.20/ 2021-06 173 184 Towards a morphological transducer and orthography converter for Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec Jonathan Washington author Felipe Lopez author Brook Lillehaugen author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication washington-etal-2021-towards 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.21/ 2021-06 185 193 Peru is Multilingual, Its Machine Translation Should Be Too? Arturo Oncevay author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication oncevay-2021-peru 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.22/ 2021-06 194 201 Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager author Arturo Oncevay author Abteen Ebrahimi author John Ortega author Annette Rios author Angela Fan author Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques author Luis Chiruzzo author Gustavo Giménez-Lugo author Ricardo Ramos author Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz author Rolando Coto-Solano author Alexis Palmer author Elisabeth Mager-Hois author Vishrav Chaudhary author Graham Neubig author Ngoc Thang Vu author Katharina Kann author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication mager-etal-2021-findings 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.23 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.23/ 2021-06 202 217 Open Machine Translation for Low Resource South American Languages (AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task Contribution) Shantipriya Parida author Subhadarshi Panda author Amulya Dash author Esau Villatoro-Tello author A Seza Doğruöz author Rosa M Ortega-Mendoza author Amadeo Hernández author Yashvardhan Sharma author Petr Motlicek author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication parida-etal-2021-open 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.24 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.24/ 2021-06 218 223 NRC-CNRC Machine Translation Systems for the 2021 AmericasNLP Shared Task Rebecca Knowles author Darlene Stewart author Samuel Larkin author Patrick Littell author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication knowles-etal-2021-nrc 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.25 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.25/ 2021-06 224 233 Low-Resource Machine Translation Using Cross-Lingual Language Model Pretraining Francis Zheng author Machel Reid author Edison Marrese-Taylor author Yutaka Matsuo author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication zheng-etal-2021-low 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.26 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.26/ 2021-06 234 240 The REPU CS’ Spanish–Quechua Submission to the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation Oscar Moreno author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication moreno-2021-repu 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.27 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.27/ 2021-06 241 247 Moses and the Character-Based Random Babbling Baseline: CoAStaL at AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task Marcel Bollmann author Rahul Aralikatte author Héctor Murrieta Bello author Daniel Hershcovich author Miryam de Lhoneux author Anders Søgaard author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication bollmann-etal-2021-moses 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.28 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.28/ 2021-06 248 254 The Helsinki submission to the AmericasNLP shared task Raúl Vázquez author Yves Scherrer author Sami Virpioja author Jörg Tiedemann author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference publication vazquez-etal-2021-helsinki 10.18653/v1/2021.americasnlp-1.29 https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.29/ 2021-06 255 264 IndT5: A Text-to-Text Transformer for 10 Indigenous Languages El Moatez Billah Nagoudi author Wei-Rui Chen author Muhammad Abdul-Mageed author Hasan Cavusoglu author 2021-06 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Manuel Mager editor Arturo Oncevay editor Annette Rios editor Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz editor Alexis Palmer editor Graham Neubig editor Katharina Kann editor Association for Computational Linguistics Online conference 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