Elwin Huaman

Elwin Huaman

Research Engineer

University of Cambridge

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Elwin Huaman is a Quechuan Researcher from Nuñoa Peru, working in the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. He has experience creating Knowledge Graphs within the civil society, academia and industry. He has co-authored the book: Knowledge Graphs - Methodology, Tools and Selected Use Cases, and is founder of QuechuaBase, a knowledge base ecosystem that supports a harmonization process of the language and knowledge of Quechua communities across the world while promoting their agency and digital inclusion.

Interests

Web for all Speech and Language Technologies Low-resource Languages Computational Linguistics Minority communities Quechua languages Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs Resposible AI
📅 Recent & Upcoming Talks
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Poster | Building Community-Centred AI: Quechua Languages

A community-centred AI framework built on QuechuaBase, an open infrastructure for modelling, curating and deploying oral-first language technologies.

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Speaker | Building Community-Centred AI

Presenting QuechuaBase.org, an open, community-curated infrastructure for oral-first language technology for Quechua languages and Puno Quechua.

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Speaker | Bridging Language Education, Variation, and Speech Community: Puno Quechua

How participatory data collection with Puno Quechua speakers connects language education, language variation and the speech community, and the open resources it produced.

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📚 Featured Publications
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Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua

We present the largest speech corpus for a single Quechua variety, collected with the community, and the first ASR benchmark for Puno Quechua.

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Quechua Speech Datasets in Common Voice: The Case of Puno Quechua

We detail the integration of the Quechua language family into Common Voice, an open-source initiative to build diverse speech datasets.

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Making an Under-Resourced Language Available on the Wikidata Knowledge Graph: Quechua Language

We bring the Quechua language into Wikidata. We outline a technical pipeline for data curation and deployment, transforming Quechua linguistic resources into structured, …

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📑 Featured Projects
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QuechuaBase.org

Recording Puno Quechua voices across generations and making audio recordings available to all on Mozilla Common Voice to support language preservation, education, and research.

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WikiAndes [Bringing Wiki Projects to the Andes]

Bringing Wiki Projects to the Andes aims to impart key knowledge onto learners and society at large.

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MindLab

Knowledge Graph-enabled conversational agents, University of Innsbruck and other partners, Private funding.

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✍️ Blog

Recording Voices of the Puno Quechua in Peru

The project aims to record the voices of Puno Quechua speakers (including adults and elders) and make these recordings available on the Wikimedia Ecosystem and Qichwabase.