A Critical Review of the Current State of Natural Language Processing in Mexico and Chile

Abstract

This chapter presents a critical review of the current state of natural language processing in Chile and Mexico. Specifically, a general review is made regarding the technological evolution of these countries in this area of research and development, as well as the progress they have made so far. Subsequently, the remaining problems and challenges are addressed. Specifically, two are analyzed in detail here: (1) the lack of a strategic policy that helps to establish stronger links between academia and industry and (2) the lack of a technological inclusion of the indigenous languages, which causes a deep digital divide between Spanish (considered in Chile and Mexico as their official language) with them.

Digital Humanities, Corpus and Language Technology: A look from diverse case studies

“…Como se sabe, este es un problema de muy diversa índole (económica, educativa, informativa, política y social) que pone de manifiesto, por un lado, la marginación de las comunidades indígenas de México y otras latitudes del mundo y, por otro, la incapacidad para emplear, adquirir y generar recursos tecnológicos que, en un contexto generalizado de inequidad e injusticia, termina por excluir a estas comunidades (cf. Acosta & Aguilar, 2020;Arévalo, 2015).…”