  St. Lawrence Island Yupik (ISO 639-3: ess) is an endangered polysynthetic
language in the Inuit-Yupik language family indigenous to Alaska and Chukotka.
This work presents a step-by-step pipeline for the digitization of written
texts, and the first publicly available digital corpus for St. Lawrence Island
Yupik, created using that pipeline. This corpus has great potential for future
linguistic inquiry and research in NLP. It was also developed for use in Yupik
language education and revitalization, with a primary goal of enabling easy
access to Yupik texts by educators and by members of the Yupik community. A
secondary goal is to support development of language technology such as
spell-checkers, text-completion systems, interactive e-books, and language
learning apps for use by the Yupik community.
