Minorities languages and syntactic annotations of corpora
research experiences in scientific initiation
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2023.1.44734Keywords:
computational linguistics, descriptive linguistics, Tupían languages, universal dependencies, treebanks.Abstract
Many of the Brazilian indigenous languages are endangered. In most cases, revitalization and conservation strategies for these languages are essential (Crystal, 2002; Harrison, 2007), requiring continuous processes of promoting language policies and actions focused on indigenous school education. This article presents the use of linguistic tools associated with the construction of treebanks (corpora of texts with syntactic and morphological annotations) and the description of two minority indigenous languages belonging to the Tupían linguistic family spoken in the southwestern Amazon, Brazil. The treebanks, part of the Universal Dependencies project (De Marneffe et al., 2021; Duran et al., 2022), form the basis of experiments conducted in the Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation Scholarships at the Federal University of Paraíba (2021-2022), entitled "Education, Linguistics, History, and Indigenous Communities." We discuss the application of these tools in linguistic description, their relationship with the study of indigenous language typology. Furthermore, we explore the intersection of computational linguistics with descriptive linguistics.
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