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most citedUnsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities

14 citations · 21 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2022

Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: Enhancing Information Access in Gondi

Devansh Mehta, Harshita Diddee, Ananya Saxena +8

The primary obstacle to developing technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of representative, usable data. In this paper, we report the deployment of technology-driven…

cs.CL20222 cited

Too Brittle To Touch: Comparing the Stability of Quantization and Distillation Towards Developing Lightweight Low-Resource MT Models

Harshita Diddee, Sandipan Dandapat, Monojit Choudhury +2

Leveraging shared learning through Massively Multilingual Models, state-of-the-art machine translation models are often able to adapt to the paucity of data for low-resource langua…

cs.CY20225 cited

Global Readiness of Language Technology for Healthcare: What would it Take to Combat the Next Pandemic?

Ishani Mondal, Kabir Ahuja, Mohit Jain +3

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out both the best and worst of language technology (LT). On one hand, conversational agents for information dissemination and basic diagnosis have…

cs.CL2021

Predicting the Performance of Multilingual NLP Models

Anirudh Srinivasan, Sunayana Sitaram, Tanuja Ganu +3

Recent advancements in NLP have given us models like mBERT and XLMR that can serve over 100 languages. The languages that these models are evaluated on, however, are very few in nu…

cs.CL2021

Designing Language Technologies for Social Good: The Road not Taken

Namrata Mukhija, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali

Development of speech and language technology for social good (LT4SG), especially those targeted at the welfare of marginalized communities and speakers of low-resource and under-s…

cs.CL2021

Multilingual and code-switching ASR challenges for low resource Indian languages

Anuj Diwan, Rakesh Vaideeswaran, Sanket Shah +19

Recently, there is increasing interest in multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) where a speech recognition system caters to multiple low resource languages by taking adva…