Belu Ticona

I'm attending #ACL in Vienna this week. 🇦🇹 We're running a BoF on Language Technologies for Crisis Response and Preparedness, co-hosted w/Will Lewis

📆 Wed. 30th, 11am. Room 1.33.
You can join us virtually too. DM me if you’re interested ✨

@wildlewis.bsky.social @antonisa.bsky.social

28.07.2025 12:45 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I am so excited to share with you all the 2025 edition of our #AmericasNLP workshop!
Do not hesitate in submitting your amazing research paper on indigenous and low resource languages.
Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...

30.01.2025 15:17 — 👍 28    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0

We hope this work helps anyone willing to start working on these languages and with their communities. Thanks to my co-authors, Fernando Carranza and Viviana Cotik for their dedication. And also to @antonisa.bsky.social for his support.

21.01.2025 08:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

21.01.2025 08:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We argued the questionnaire design under estimates the real number of speakers. The known narrative of European descent as part of Argentinian identity might influence individuals to not identify as indigenous while being speakers of an indigenous language.

21.01.2025 08:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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.

21.01.2025 07:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mapa Digital de las Lenguas Indígenas en el Presente - Google My Maps Mapa Digital de las Lenguas Indígenas en el Presente

According to the last census, conducted both virtually and in-person for the very 1st time, more than 25 languages previously thought to be extinct still have speakers. 🗣️
Check the interactive map: cui.edu.ar/html/MapadeL...

21.01.2025 07:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Poster header, Indigenous Languages Spoken in Argentina

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...

21.01.2025 07:47 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

West Building. Room 201/2. 14.30-19hs. Our talk is at 17.30hs!
See you there to talk about indigenous in AI, language technology for low resource languages and crisis response

12.12.2024 19:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Join us today at the Indigenous in AI/ML workshop at #neurIPS2024. ✨🚨
I’ll be co-presenting about how the NLP/speech community working on these languages has grown in recent years . We’ll also highlight some recent work for indigenous languages of the Americas. 🧵(1/2)

12.12.2024 19:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Marc! Could you add me to the list? Thanks! :)

29.11.2024 18:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0