A Resource for Studying Chatino Verbal Morphology
This addresses a gap for linguists and NLP researchers working on low-resource tonal languages, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to new data.
The authors tackled the lack of resources for San Juan Quiahije Chatino verbal morphology by creating the first dataset with 198 lemmata and inflection tables, and provided baseline results for NLP tasks like morphological analysis.
We present the first resource focusing on the verbal inflectional morphology of San Juan Quiahije Chatino, a tonal mesoamerican language spoken in Mexico. We provide a collection of complete inflection tables of 198 lemmata, with morphological tags based on the UniMorph schema. We also provide baseline results on three core NLP tasks: morphological analysis, lemmatization, and morphological inflection.