TY - GEN
T1 - WELT
T2 - 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014
AU - Ulinski, Morgan
AU - Balakrishnan, Anusha
AU - Bauer, Daniel
AU - Coyne, Bob
AU - Hirschberg, Julia
AU - Rambow, Owen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We describe the WordsEye Linguistics tool (WELT), a novel tool for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages. WELT is based on Words- Eye (Coyne and Sproat, 2001), a text-toscene tool that automatically generates 3D scenes from written input. WELT has two modes of operation. In the first mode, English input automatically generates a picture which can be used to elicit a description in the target language. In the second mode, the linguist formally documents the grammar of an endangered language, thereby creating a system that takes input in the endangered language and generates a picture according to the grammar; the picture can then be used to verify the grammar with native speakers. We will demonstrate WELT's use on scenarios involving Arrernte and Nahuatl.
AB - We describe the WordsEye Linguistics tool (WELT), a novel tool for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages. WELT is based on Words- Eye (Coyne and Sproat, 2001), a text-toscene tool that automatically generates 3D scenes from written input. WELT has two modes of operation. In the first mode, English input automatically generates a picture which can be used to elicit a description in the target language. In the second mode, the linguist formally documents the grammar of an endangered language, thereby creating a system that takes input in the endangered language and generates a picture according to the grammar; the picture can then be used to verify the grammar with native speakers. We will demonstrate WELT's use on scenarios involving Arrernte and Nahuatl.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85055008091
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85055008091
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
SP - 49
EP - 54
BT - ACL 2014 - 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
A2 - Kochmar, Ekaterina
A2 - Bontcheva, Kalina
A2 - Zhu, Jingbo
A2 - Louis, Annie
A2 - Volkova, Svitlana
A2 - Boyd-Graber, Jordan
A2 - Byrne, Bill
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 22 June 2014 through 27 June 2014
ER -