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Awal -- Community-Powered Language Technology for Tamazight
Alp Öktem, Farida Boudichat
This paper presents Awal, a community-powered initiative for developing language technology resources for Tamazight. We provide a comprehensive review of the NLP landscape for Tama…
Preparing an Endangered Language for the Digital Age: The Case of Judeo-Spanish
Alp Öktem, Rodolfo Zevallos, Yasmin Moslem +2
We develop machine translation and speech synthesis systems to complement the efforts of revitalizing Judeo-Spanish, the exiled language of Sephardic Jews, which survived for centu…
Congolese Swahili Machine Translation for Humanitarian Response
Alp Öktem, Eric DeLuca, Rodrigue Bashizi +2
In this paper we describe our efforts to make a bidirectional Congolese Swahili (SWC) to French (FRA) neural machine translation system with the motivation of improving humanitaria…
Tigrinya Neural Machine Translation with Transfer Learning for Humanitarian Response
Alp Öktem, Mirko Plitt, Grace Tang
We report our experiments in building a domain-specific Tigrinya-to-English neural machine translation system. We use transfer learning from other Ge'ez script languages and report…
Prosodic Phrase Alignment for Machine Dubbing
Alp Öktem, Mireia Farrús, Antonio Bonafonte
Dubbing is a type of audiovisual translation where dialogues are translated and enacted so that they give the impression that the media is in the target language. It requires a car…