4 papers
\textit{Versteasch du mi?} Computational and Socio-Linguistic Perspectives on GenAI, LLMs, and Non-Standard Language
Verena Platzgummer, John McCrae, Sina Ahmadi
The design of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been shown to be "unfair" to less-spoken languages (Petrov et al., 2023) and to deepen…
Robust Language Identification for Romansh Varieties
Charlotte Model, Sina Ahmadi, Jannis Vamvas
The Romansh language has several regional varieties, called idioms, which sometimes have limited mutual intelligibility. Despite this linguistic diversity, there has been a lack of…
Language and Speech Technology for Central Kurdish Varieties
Sina Ahmadi, Daban Q. Jaff, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam +1
Kurdish, an Indo-European language spoken by over 30 million speakers, is considered a dialect continuum and known for its diversity in language varieties. Previous studies address…
A Morphologically-Aware Dictionary-based Data Augmentation Technique for Machine Translation of Under-Represented Languages
Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Sina Ahmadi, Antonios Anastasopoulos
The availability of parallel texts is crucial to the performance of machine translation models. However, most of the world's languages face the predominant challenge of data scarci…