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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…
PARIKSHA: A Large-Scale Investigation of Human-LLM Evaluator Agreement on Multilingual and Multi-Cultural Data
Ishaan Watts, Varun Gumma, Aditya Yadavalli +3
Evaluation of multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) is challenging due to a variety of factors -- the lack of benchmarks with sufficient linguistic diversity, contamination of…
Akal Badi ya Bias: An Exploratory Study of Gender Bias in Hindi Language Technology
Rishav Hada, Safiya Husain, Varun Gumma +8
Existing research in measuring and mitigating gender bias predominantly centers on English, overlooking the intricate challenges posed by non-English languages and the Global South…
MunTTS: A Text-to-Speech System for Mundari
Varun Gumma, Rishav Hada, Aditya Yadavalli +4
We present MunTTS, an end-to-end text-to-speech (TTS) system specifically for Mundari, a low-resource Indian language of the Austo-Asiatic family. Our work addresses the gap in lin…