Language technologies for Peruvian indigenous languages
What is CHANA?
Chana is how Shipibo-Konibo community refers to the páucar, a bird that represents intelligence for them. For that reason, our project, Chana, involves the development of intelligent language technologies for processing indigenous languages from Peru. Specifically, we are developing an automatic machine translation (MT) system between Spanish and Shipibo-Konibo
How CHANA was started?
The project is an initiative of both Informatics and Linguistics professors at PUCP, who jointly research in the areas of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. They identify an opportunity in the development of language technologies to benefit minority communities who spoke indigenous languages. The project has been granted mainly by CONCYTEC (Peruvian Government) and PUCP, as well as received complementary support from NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services.
About us
We are an interdisciplinary research group at PUCP, composed by computer scientists, linguists and bilingual speakers of Peruvian indigenous languages. We are officially part of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group (IA-PUCP), as the core research line of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics.
Who will be benefited?
The main beneficiaries are the speakers of indigenous languages in Peru. Language technologies can contribute positively in the process of revitalization of their languages, as well as in bilingual education tasks, such as the development and revision of educational material.
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