Evaluating zero-shot transfers and multilingual models for dependency parsing and POS tagging within the low-resource language family Tupían

no code implementations • ACL 2022 • Frederic Blum

This work presents two experiments with the goal of replicating the transferability of dependency parsers and POS taggers trained on closely related languages within the low-resource language family Tupían.

Dependency Parsing POS +2

Representing and Computing Uncertainty in Phonological Reconstruction

1 code implementation • 19 Oct 2023 • Johann-Mattis List, Nathan W. Hill, Robert Forkel, Frederic Blum

Despite the inherently fuzzy nature of reconstructions in historical linguistics, most scholars do not represent their uncertainty when proposing proto-forms.

Trimming Phonetic Alignments Improves the Inference of Sound Correspondence Patterns from Multilingual Wordlists

no code implementations • 31 Mar 2023 • Frederic Blum, Johann-Mattis List

Sound correspondence patterns form the basis of cognate detection and phonological reconstruction in historical language comparison.

Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo

1 code implementation • LREC 2022 • Roberto Zariquiey, Claudia Alvarado, Ximena Echevarria, Luisa Gomez, Rosa Gonzales, Mariana Illescas, Sabina Oporto, Frederic Blum, Arturo Oncevay, Javier Vera

In this paper, we launch a new Universal Dependencies treebank for an endangered language from Amazonia: Kakataibo, a Panoan language spoken in Peru.

Dependency Parsing Part-Of-Speech Tagging +1