Belu Ticona
beluticona.bsky.social
Belu Ticona
@beluticona.bsky.social
CS PhD student @GeorgeMasonU @ComputacionUBA NLP, Speech &🤎
Language Technologies for Crisis Response, AI + Indigenous People 🌱
http://beluticona.github.io
We also reviewed the available corpora and research on these language families, identifying two main types of contributions: by Latin American individuals in the diaspora and by local projects with institutional support. Most of the work was published through dedicated academic community initiatives
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We analyzed the most spoken indigenous language families, using the demo linguistic data provided by the census. 🗣️
However, individuals were asked if they were speakers only if they self-identified as indigenous first. No questions were done about the languages they spoke nor their proficiency.
January 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Did you know Argentina has (at least) 40 indigenous languages? 🤯 I'm at COLING presenting our Survey on Indigenous Languages Spoken in Argentina ✨ 🧵

If you're in Abu Dhabi, come today to our poster at 2pm :)

📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.09943
📊 Poster: tinyurl.com/coling25Tico...
January 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM