Uyari toolkit builds Shawi translation corpus

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Uyari is an open toolkit designed to build translation models and parallel corpora for Indigenous languages, starting with Shawi in the Peruvian Amazon. By combining a structured design matrix of everyday community scenarios with AI-generated Spanish and machine-translated official languages, the project produces high-quality training datasets at low cost while prioritizing the scarce resource of a human speaker's time. Open article →