Kawenn\'on:nis: the Wordmaker for Kanyen'k\'eha
Anna Kazantseva, Owennatekha Brian Maracle, Ronkwe{'}tiy{\'o}hstha Josiah Maracle, Aidan Pine
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In this paper we describe preliminary work on Kawenn\'on:nis, a verb conjugator for Kanyen'k\'eha (Ohsweken dialect). The project is the result of a collaboration between Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Kanyen'k\'eha immersion school and the Canadian National Research Council's Indigenous Language Technology lab. The purpose of Kawenn\'on:nis is to build on the educational successes of the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa school and develop a tool that assists students in learning how to conjugate verbs in Kanyen'k\'eha; a skill that is essential to mastering the language. Kawenn\'on:nis is implemented with both web and mobile front-ends that communicate with an application programming interface that in turn communicates with a symbolic language model implemented as a finite state transducer. Eventually, it will serve as a foundation for several other applications for both Kanyen'k\'eha and other Iroquoian languages.