4 papers
ELR-1000: A Community-Generated Dataset for Endangered Indic Indigenous Languages
Neha Joshi, Pamir Gogoi, Aasim Mirza +7
We present a culturally-grounded multimodal dataset of 1,060 traditional recipes crowdsourced from rural communities across remote regions of Eastern India, spanning 10 endangered…
What's Not on the Plate? Rethinking Food Computing through Indigenous Indian Datasets
Pamir Gogoi, Neha Joshi, Ayushi Pandey +6
This paper presents a multimodal dataset of 1,000 indigenous recipes from remote regions of India, collected through a participatory model involving first-time digital workers from…
UPDESH: Synthesizing Grounded Instruction Tuning Data for 13 Indic Languages
Pranjal A. Chitale, Varun Gumma, Sanchit Ahuja +4
Developing culturally grounded multilingual AI systems remains challenging, particularly for low-resource languages. While synthetic data offers promise, its effectiveness in multi…
KAHANI: Culturally-Nuanced Visual Storytelling Tool for Non-Western Cultures
Hamna, Deepthi Sudharsan, Agrima Seth +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Text-To-Image (T2I) models have demonstrated the ability to generate compelling text and visual stories. However, their outputs are predominantly a…