Natural Language Processing of Modern Western Aramaic

Student: Zemlyanskaya Sofiya

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

Modern Western Aramaic is the only surviving language of the Western branch of the Neo-Aramaic languages. It is endangered language and is of interest to many linguists. Despite the activity of studying, there were no NLP tools for it before, which made studies of Aramaic complicated. As a part of this work, we have created: a morphological parser for the Maaluola dialect (accuracy ≈88%), a parallel Aramaic-German annotated corpus on the tsakorpus platform (coverage ≈87%), a tool for glossing texts (accuracy of morphological segmentation ≈87%, of morphological annotation — ≈68%). There were also created tools for evaluation of the accuracy of the created parser and glossing tool, and studies in field of homonymy and subjunctive were conducted on the material of created Aramaic corpus.

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