Unified Knowledge-Graph for Brazilian Indigenous Languages: An Educational Applications Perspective
Abstract
In this paper we present an unified knowledge-graph for Brazilian indigenous languages (BIL) from the perspective of potential applications, with a particular focus to the educational domain. We present BILGraph, a prototype we built for Bororo and Tupian languages, such as Guajajara, Munduruku and Akuntsu. Then we describe the knowledge extraction and entity linking process to build the graph from a dependency treebank and a lexical database for Tupian and Bororo languages. We discuss the limitations of BILGraph, highlighting ethical and practical implementation concerns.
Keywords:
Knowledge Graph, Low-resource languages, Natural Language Processing, Indigenous Languages
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Polleti, G. (2024). Building a language-learning game for Brazilian indigenous languages: A case study. Technical report, arXiv:2403.14515.
Published
2024-11-17
How to Cite
POLLETI, Gustavo; COZMAN, Fabio; GERARDI, Fabrício.
Unified Knowledge-Graph for Brazilian Indigenous Languages: An Educational Applications Perspective. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM IN INFORMATION AND HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (STIL), 15. , 2024, Belém/PA.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
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p. 159-164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/stil.2024.245403.
