Building an Endangered Language Resource in the Classroom: Universal Dependencies for Kakataibo
Roberto Zariquiey, Claudia Alvarado, Ximena Echevarria, Luisa Fernanda Gómez, Rosa Gonzales, Mariana Illescas, Sabina Oporto, Frederic L. Blum, Arturo Oncevay, Javier Vera · 2022
In this paper, we launch a new Universal Dependencies treebank for an endangered language from Amazonia: Kakataibo, a Panoan language spoken in Peru.We first discuss the collaborative methodology implemented, which proved effective to create a treebank in the context of a Computational Linguistic course for undergraduates.Then, we describe the general details of the treebank and the language-specific considerations implemented for the proposed annotation.We finally conduct some experiments on part-of-speech tagging and syntactic dependency parsing.We focus on monolingual and transfer learning settings, where we study the impact of a Shipibo-Konibo treebank, another Panoan language resource.