OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24917

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Title:		Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization
Bibliographic Citation:		Schreiner, Sylvia L. R., Schwartz, Lane, Hunt, Benjamin, Chen, Emily; 2020-01; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24917.
Creator:		Schreiner, Sylvia L. R.
		Schwartz, Lane
		Hunt, Benjamin
		Chen, Emily
Date (W3CDTF):		2020-01
Description:		St. Lawrence Island Yupik is an endangered language of the Bering Strait region. In this paper, we describe our work on Yupik jointly leveraging computational morphology and linguistic fieldwork, outlining the multilayer virtuous cycle that we continue to refine in our work to document and build tools for the language. After developing a preliminary morphological analyzer from an existing pedagogical grammar of Yupik, we used it to help analyze new word forms gathered through fieldwork. While in the field, we augmented the analyzer to include insights into the lexicon, phonology, and morphology of the language as they were gained during elicitation sessions and subsequent data analysis. The analyzer and other tools we have developed are improved by a corpus that continues to grow through our digitization and documentation efforts, and the computational tools in turn allow us to improve and speed those same efforts. Through this process, we have successfully identified previously undescribed lexical, morphological, and phonological processes in Yupik while simultaneously increasing the coverage of the morphological analyzer. Given the polysynthetic nature of Yupik, a high-coverage morphological analyzer is a necessary prerequisite for the development of other high-level computational tools that have been requested by the Yupik community.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		18 pages
Identifier:		Schreiner, Sylvia L. R., Lane Schwartz, Benjamin Hunt, & Emily Chen. 2020. Multidirectional leveraging for computational morphology and language documentation and revitalization. Language Documentation & Conservation 14: 69-86.
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24917
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
		Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:		Yupik
		computational morphology
		linguistic fieldwork
		language documentation
		language revitalization
Table Of Contents:		schreiner_et_al.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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DateStamp:		2020-01-31
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Citation:		Schreiner, Sylvia L. R.; Schwartz, Lane; Hunt, Benjamin; Chen, Emily. 2020. University of Hawaii Press.
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