3 papers
cs.CL2026
bharatSetu: a 1M x 22 bridge for indic translation
Haq Nawaz Malik, Nahfid Nissar, Faizan Iqbal
India's Eighth Schedule recognises 22 languages, yet parallel data is uneven across them, and many language pairs, especially among lower-resource languages such as Bodo, Dogri, Sa…
cs.CV2026
Koshur Pixel: a large-scale synthetic ocr dataset for kashmiri
Haq Nawaz Malik, Faizan Iqbal, Nahfid Nissar
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for low-resource languages is often constrained by the lack of annotated training data and the complexity of script-specific rendering. Kashmiri…
cs.CL2026
Koshur Diacritizer: A Byte-Level Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Kashmiri Diacritic Restoration
Haq Nawaz Malik, Nahfid Nissar, Faizan Iqbal
Kashmiri, an Indo-Aryan language written in a modified Perso-Arabic script, frequently omits diacritic marks in digital text, creating ambiguity and challenging downstream NLP appl…