Community-Focused Language Documentation in Support of Language Education and Revitalization for St. Lawrence Island Yupik

Schwartz, Lane; Schreiner, Sylvia L.R.; Chen, Emily

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“…Yupik is a polysynthetic language with a relatively high average number of morphemes per word (Schwartz et al, 2019). Figure 1 shows examples where a single Yupik word containing multiple morphemes constitutes an entire sentence.…”

Section: Morphologically-aware Searchable Electronic Yupik Dictionarymentioning

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

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Schreiner

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Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North

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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.

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confidence: 99%

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

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Chen

Schreiner

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North

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Life without ice: Perceptions of environmental impacts on marine resources and subsistence users of St. Lawrence Island

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Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling

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Community-Focused Language Documentation in Support of Language Education and Revitalization for St. Lawrence Island Yupik

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

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

Life without ice: Perceptions of environmental impacts on marine resources and subsistence users of St. Lawrence Island

Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling

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