Andrés Lou
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Andrés Lou
@feasinde.bsky.social
Doctorando en la Universidad de Alicante, PLN/TAN.

NLP/MT for low-resource languages, with a focus on Mayan languages.
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@transducens.bsky.social group at the Universitat d'Alacant, Spain, @ua.es under an #MSCA Fellowship 📷 Low-resource language technologies, machine translation, language models, data crawling... 📷 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting...
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May 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Las lingüistas no salvamos lenguas y menos si son ajenas. Las documentamos, describimos y en el mejor de los casos, acompañamos procesos de revitalización comunitarios.
Hay que ir dejando esas metáforas de salvadores.
December 20, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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my most controversial take is that the whitespace margin provided by your LaTeX template is often totally reasonable and you don't need to add negative \vspace everywhere by default out of habit
December 17, 2024 at 3:15 PM
My favourite bit of etymological trivia: the Spanish word for bat, "murciélago", comes from Latin "mus caeculus", or 'little blind mouse', which is just precious.
December 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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“We have our own way of producing knowledge, science and wisdom. We have our own languages and our own forms of justice, a different cosmovision of nature. We have a lot to offer."

english.elpais.com/education/20...

#langsky
Mayan universities push to expand Indigenous knowledge beyond oral tradition
Guatemala is home to six institutions of multi-ethnic higher learning whose mission is to pass on ancestral lessons and impart degrees. ‘Our mission is not economistic, but social,’ says one rector
english.elpais.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Feliz de anunciar que se nos ha otorgado el Google Academic Research Award (GARA) para la construcción de un conjunto de datos para el desarrollo y evaluación de modelos de traducción automática neuronal (TAN), enfocándonos en las lenguas mayas de Guatemala.
Usarán IA para preservar lenguas ancestrales mayas – DW – 05/12/2024
El proyecto premiado por Google ayudará a que poblaciones marginadas tengan mejor acceso a atención médica y jurídica, preservando además las lenguas mayas ancestrales.
www.dw.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Que se traten a las lenguas/hablantes de forma distinta en nuestras sociedades poco o nada tiene que ver con la lengua en sí. Por el contrario, es por qué y a quién indexa.
Que una lengua/acento/forma de hablar sea "bonita, útil, fea, moderna, civilizada" y otra no, no es intrínseco a la lengua.
Being a linguist is inherently political. We know that all language is equal and that being treated differently because of your languaging has to do with the body you inhabit and not the language itself.

#linguistics #language
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 PM
At some point we should just stop building statues
November 29, 2024 at 9:30 AM