2 papers
cs.CL2026
Saar-Voice: A Multi-Speaker Saarbrücken Dialect Speech Corpus
Lena S. Oberkircher, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Dietrich Klakow +1
Natural language processing (NLP) and speech technologies have made significant progress in recent years; however, they remain largely focused on standardized language varieties. D…
cs.CL2025
TRepLiNa: Layer-wise CKA+REPINA Alignment Improves Low-Resource Machine Translation in Aya-23 8B
Toshiki Nakai, Ravi Kiran Chikkala, Lena Sophie Oberkircher +4
The 2025 Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo) Language Challenge addresses one of India's most pressing linguistic gaps: the lack of resources for…