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When English Rewrites Local Knowledge: Global Narrative Dominance in Large Language Models
Md Arid Hasan, Ruwad Naswan, Farhan Samir +2
Large language models (LLMs) are widely used as cross-lingual knowledge interfaces. However, culturally grounded questions often reflect globally dominant narratives rather than lo…
Are ASR foundation models generalized enough to capture features of regional dialects for low-resource languages?
Tawsif Tashwar Dipto, Azmol Hossain, Rubayet Sabbir Faruque +12
Conventional research on speech recognition modeling relies on the canonical form for most low-resource languages while automatic speech recognition (ASR) for regional dialects is…
RegSpeech12: A Regional Corpus of Bengali Spontaneous Speech Across Dialects
Md. Rezuwan Hassan, Azmol Hossain, Kanij Fatema +13
The Bengali language, spoken extensively across South Asia and among diasporic communities, exhibits considerable dialectal diversity shaped by geography, culture, and history. Pho…
Too Late to Train, Too Early To Use? A Study on Necessity and Viability of Low-Resource Bengali LLMs
Tamzeed Mahfuz, Satak Kumar Dey, Ruwad Naswan +3
Each new generation of English-oriented Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibits enhanced cross-lingual transfer capabilities and significantly outperforms older LLMs on low-resource…