A symbolic Perl algorithm for the unification of Nahuatl word spellings
By: Juan-José Guzmán-Landa , Jesús Vázquez-Osorio , Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno and more
Potential Business Impact:
Makes old Nawatl writings easier to read.
In this paper, we describe a symbolic model for the automatic orthographic unification of Nawatl text documents. Our model is based on algorithms that we have previously used to analyze sentences in Nawatl, and on the corpus called $π$-yalli, consisting of texts in several Nawatl orthographies. Our automatic unification algorithm implements linguistic rules in symbolic regular expressions. We also present a manual evaluation protocol that we have proposed and implemented to assess the quality of the unified sentences generated by our algorithm, by testing in a sentence semantic task. We have obtained encouraging results from the evaluators for most of the desired features of our artificially unified sentences
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