Curated Datasets and Neural Models for Machine Translation of Informal Registers between Mayan and Spanish Vernaculars

arXiv:2404.07673v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The Mayan languages comprise a language family with an ancient history, millions of speakers, and immense cultural value, that, nevertheless, remains severely underrepresented in terms of resources and global exposure. In this paper we develop, curate, and publicly release a set of corpora in several Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala and Southern Mexico, which we call MayanV. The datasets are parallel with Spanish, the dominant language of the region, and are taken from official native …

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