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Improving Informally Romanized Language Identification
Adrian Benton, Alexander Gutkin, Christo Kirov +1
The Latin script is often used to informally write languages with non-Latin native scripts. In many cases (e.g., most languages in India), the lack of conventional spelling in the…
XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages
Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin +24
Data scarcity is a crucial issue for the development of highly multilingual NLP systems. Yet for many under-represented languages (ULs) -- languages for which NLP re-search is part…
Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation
Alexander Gutkin, Cibu Johny, Raiomond Doctor +2
This paper presents an open-source software library that provides a set of finite-state transducer (FST) components and corresponding utilities for manipulating the writing systems…
Google Crowdsourced Speech Corpora and Related Open-Source Resources for Low-Resource Languages and Dialects: An Overview
Alena Butryna, Shan-Hui Cathy Chu, Isin Demirsahin +18
This paper presents an overview of a program designed to address the growing need for developing freely available speech resources for under-represented languages. At present we ha…
Towards Induction of Structured Phoneme Inventories
Alexander Gutkin, Martin Jansche, Lucy Skidmore
This extended abstract surveying the work on phonological typology was prepared for "SIGTYP 2020: The Second Workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology" to be held a…
Linguistic Typology Features from Text: Inferring the Sparse Features of World Atlas of Language Structures
Alexander Gutkin, Tatiana Merkulova, Martin Jansche
The use of linguistic typological resources in natural language processing has been steadily gaining more popularity. It has been observed that the use of typological information,…