Minorities languages and syntactic annotations of corpora: research experiences in scientific initiation

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. Th...

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Autores: Luiza Santos, Luana, Coelho Aragon, Carolina, Gerardi, Fabrício
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Letras de Hoje (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/44734
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/fale/article/view/44734
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:linguística computacional
linguística descritiva
línguas Tupí
dependências universais
treebanks.
computational linguistics
descriptive linguistics
Tupían languages
universal dependencies
lingüística computacional
lingüística descriptiva
lenguas Tupí
dependencias universales
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Sumario: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.