The role of morphosyntactic similarity in generating related sentences

In this paper we describe our work on Task 2: AmericasNLP 2024 Shared Task on the Creation of Educational Materials for Indigenous Languages. We tried three approaches, but only the third approach yielded improvement over the baseline system. The first system was a fairly generic transformer model. The second system was our own implementation of the edit tree approach from the baseline system. Our final attempt was a version of the baseline system where if no transformation succeeded, we applied transformations from similar morphosyntactic relations. We describe all three here, but, in the end, we only submitted the third system.