A Digital Corpus of St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Edward Jahn; Emily Chen; Hyunji Hayley Park; Lane Schwartz; Sylvia L.R. Schreiner

A Digital Corpus of St. Lawrence Island Yupik

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arxiv 2101.10496 v1 pith:2MWYTBTT submitted 2021-01-26 cs.CL

Lane Schwartz , Emily Chen , Hyunji Hayley Park , Edward Jahn , Sylvia L.R. Schreiner This is my paper · ORCID

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St. Lawrence Island Yupik (ISO 639-3: ess) is an endangered polysynthetic language in the Inuit-Yupik language family indigenous to Alaska and Chukotka. This work presents a step-by-step pipeline for the digitization of written texts, and the first publicly available digital corpus for St. Lawrence Island Yupik, created using that pipeline. This corpus has great potential for future linguistic inquiry and research in NLP. It was also developed for use in Yupik language education and revitalization, with a primary goal of enabling easy access to Yupik texts by educators and by members of the Yupik community. A secondary goal is to support development of language technology such as spell-checkers, text-completion systems, interactive e-books, and language learning apps for use by the Yupik community.

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