Lane Schwartz

Expanding Universal Dependencies for Polysynthetic Languages: A Case of St. Lawrence Island Yupik

2021

This paper describes the development of the first Universal Dependencies (UD, While the UD guidelines provided a general framework for our annotations, language-specific decisions were made necessary by the rich morphology of the polysynthetic language. …

Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling.

2020

Many techniques in modern computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) make the assumption that approaches that work well on English and other widely used European (and sometimes Asian) languages are “language agnostic” – that …