A Morphological Analyzer for St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik

Improved Finite-State Morphological Analysis for St. Lawrence Island Yupik Using Paradigm Function Morphology

St. Lawrence Island Yupik is an endangered polysynthetic language of the Bering Strait region. While conducting linguistic fieldwork between 2016 and 2019, we observed substantial support within the Yupik community for l…

Bootstrapping a Neural Morphological Analyzer for St. Lawrence Island Yupik from a Finite-State Transducer

Measuring the Value of Linguistics: A Case Study from St. Lawrence Island Yupik

The adaptation of neural approaches to NLP is a landmark achievement that has called into question the utility of linguistics in the development of computational systems. This research proposal consequently explores this…

Expanding Universal Dependencies for Polysynthetic Languages: A Case of St. Lawrence Island Yupik

This paper describes the development of the first Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank for St. Lawrence Island Yupik, an endangered language spoken in the Bering Strait region. While the UD guidelines provided a general …

Tools for supporting language learning for Sakha

This paper presents an overview of the available linguistic resources for the Sakha language, and presents new tools for supporting language learning for Sakha. The essential resources include a morphological analyzer, d…