Aryon: a Shiny app for documentation and analysis of Brazilian indigenous languages

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/stil.2023.234219

Abstract


In order to gather scientific efforts for the documentation of Brazilian languages, this work presents partial results of the development of an R Shiny web application for documentation and exploratory analysis of indigenous languages. The objective is to concentrate lexicographic descriptions of different languages by different years and researchers in a single platform. It aims at making the platform a reliable source for querying quantitative information about different language levels. In the current version, the application provides vocabularies of two languages, namely: a) Krenak, a language spoken in the East of Minas Gerais, belonging to the Botocudo family of the Macro-Jê trunk; and b) Terena, a language of the Aruak family spoken in Mato Grosso do Sul and in the west of the State of São Paulo. The vocabularies available in the application are Bruno Rudolph [Rudolph 1909], for Krenak, and Denise Silva [Silva 2013], for Terena language.

Keywords: indigenous languages, shiny app for languages, indigenous languages dictionaries

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2023-09-25
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ZAPAROLI, Mateus; ROWE, Katiuska; MADRUGA, Magnun Rochel. Aryon: a Shiny app for documentation and analysis of Brazilian indigenous languages. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL), 14. , 2023, Belo Horizonte/MG. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2023 . p. 373-376. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/stil.2023.234219.