Towards Santali Linguistic Inclusion: Building the First Santali-to-English Translation Model using mT5 Transformer and Data Augmentation

Syed Mohammed Mostaque Billah, Ateya Ahmed Subarna, Sudipta Nandi Sarna +4

Around seven million individuals in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal speak Santali, positioning it as nearly the third most commonly used Austroasiatic language. Despite its pr…