Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Benjamin Hunt; Emily Chen; Sylvia L.R. Schreiner; Lane Schwartz

Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Benjamin Hunt, Emily Chen, Sylvia L.R. Schreiner, Lane Schwartz

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In this paper, we introduce a morphologicallyaware electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik, an endangered language of the Bering Strait region. Implemented using HTML, Javascript, and CSS, the dictionary is set in an uncluttered interface and permits users to search in Yupik or in English for Yupik root words and Yupik derivational suffixes. For each matching result, our electronic dictionary presents the user with the corresponding entry from the Badten et al. (2008) Yupik- English paper dictionary. Because Yupik is a polysynthetic language, handling of multimorphemic word forms is critical. If a user searches for an inflected Yupik word form, we perform a morphological analysis and return entries for the root word and for any derivational suffixes present in the word. This electronic dictionary should serve not only as a valuable resource for all students and speakers of Yupik, but also for field linguists working towards documentation and conservation of the language.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	122-126
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781950737161
State	Published - 2019
Event	2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2019 - Minneapolis, United States Duration: Jun 2 2019 → Jun 7 2019

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Name	NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session

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Conference	2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Minneapolis
Period	6/2/19 → 6/7/19

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Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language

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Hunt, B., Chen, E., Schreiner, S. L. R., & Schwartz, L. (2019). Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. In NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session (pp. 122-126). (NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. / Hunt, Benjamin; Chen, Emily; Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. et al.
NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019. p. 122-126 (NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hunt, B, Chen, E, Schreiner, SLR & Schwartz, L 2019, Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. in NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session. NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 122-126, 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2019, Minneapolis, United States, 6/2/19.

Hunt B, Chen E, Schreiner SLR, Schwartz L. Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language: An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. In NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2019. p. 122-126. (NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session).

Hunt, Benjamin ; Chen, Emily ; Schreiner, Sylvia L.R. et al. / Community lexical access for an endangered polysynthetic language : An electronic dictionary for St. Lawrence Island Yupik. NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019. pp. 122-126 (NAACL HLT 2019 - 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session).

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