Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Semantic Annotation of Four Indigenous Languages
Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Semantic Annotation of Four Indigenous Languages
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10.18653/v1/2021.law-1.2
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2021
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Jens E. L. Van Gysel;Meagan Vigus;Lukas Denk;Andrew Cowell;Rosa Vallejos;Timothy J. O'Gorman;W. Bruce Croft
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Jens E. L. Van Gysel;Meagan Vigus;Lukas Denk;Andrew Cowell;Rosa Vallejos;Timothy J. O'Gorman;W. Bruce Croft
语义注释语料库等计算资源可以发挥重要作用，使土著少数民族语言的使用者能够用自己的语言参与政府、教育和其他公共生活领域。然而，许多语言-主要是那些母语人口较少且没有书面传统的语言-几乎没有数字支持。创建此类资源的一个障碍是，对于许多语言来说，很少有人能够注释文本-这是一项需要识字和一些语言培训的任务-而且这些专家的时间通常是语言规划工作的高需求。本文评估了是否类型学训练的土著语言的非扬声器可以可行地执行语义注释使用统一的意义表示，从而允许创建计算材料，而不会对社区资源造成进一步的压力。
Computational resources such as semantically annotated corpora can play an important role in enabling speakers of indigenous minority languages to participate in government, education, and other domains of public life in their own language. However, many languages – mainly those with small native speaker populations and without written traditions – have little to no digital support. One hurdle in creating such resources is that for many languages, few speakers would be capable of annotating texts – a task which requires literacy and some linguistic training – and that these experts’ time is typically in high demand for language planning work. This paper assesses whether typologically trained non-speakers of an indigenous language can feasibly perform semantic annotation using Uniform Meaning Representations, thus allowing for the creation of computational materials without putting further strain on community resources.