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most citedTowards dialect-inclusive recognition in a low-resource language: are balanced corpora the answer?

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cs.CL2025

Qomhra: A Bilingual Irish and English Large Language Model

Joseph McInerney, Khanh-Tung Tran, Liam Lonergan +3

Large language model (LLM) research and development has overwhelmingly focused on the world's major languages, leading to under-representation of low-resource languages such as Iri…

cs.CL2024

Fotheidil: an Automatic Transcription System for the Irish Language

Liam Lonergan, Ibon Saratxaga, John Sloan +5

This paper sets out the first web-based transcription system for the Irish language - Fotheidil, a system that utilises speech-related AI technologies as part of the ABAIR initiati…

cs.CL2024

Low-resource speech recognition and dialect identification of Irish in a multi-task framework

Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin +2

This paper explores the use of Hybrid CTC/Attention encoder-decoder models trained with Intermediate CTC (InterCTC) for Irish (Gaelic) low-resource speech recognition (ASR) and dia…

cs.CL2023

Towards spoken dialect identification of Irish

Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin +2

The Irish language is rich in its diversity of dialects and accents. This compounds the difficulty of creating a speech recognition system for the low-resource language, as such a…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Towards dialect-inclusive recognition in a low-resource language: are balanced corpora the answer?

Liam Lonergan, Mengjie Qian, Neasa Ní Chiaráin +2

ASR systems are generally built for the spoken 'standard', and their performance declines for non-standard dialects/varieties. This is a problem for a language like Irish, where th…