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Challenges of language technologies for the indigenous languages of the Americas

12 Jun 2018COLING 2018 8arXiv:1806.04291archive 2025-07-28

Manuel Mager, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Gerardo Sierra, Ivan Meza

Indigenous languages of the American continent are highly diverse. However, they have received little attention from the technological perspective. In this paper, we review the research, the digital resources and the available NLP systems that focus on these languages. We present the main challenges and research questions that arise when distant languages and low-resource scenarios are faced. We would like to encourage NLP research in linguistically rich and diverse areas like the Americas.

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