3 papers
cs.CL2026
NwÄchÄ MunÄ: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASR
Rishikesh Kumar Sharma, Safal Narshing Shrestha, Jenny Poudel +4
Nepal Bhasha (Newari), an endangered language of the Kathmandu Valley, remains digitally marginalized due to the severe scarcity of annotated speech resources. In this work, we int…
cs.CL2026
NepTam: A Nepali-Tamang Parallel Corpus and Baseline Machine Translation Experiments
Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bipesh Subedi, Balaram Prasain +7
Modern Translation Systems heavily rely on high-quality, large parallel datasets for state-of-the-art performance. However, such resources are largely unavailable for most of the S…
cs.CL2026
Benchmarking BERT-based Models for Sentence-level Topic Classification in Nepali Language
Nischal Karki, Bipesh Subedi, Prakash Poudyal +2
Transformer-based models such as BERT have significantly advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) across many languages. However, Nepali, a low-resource language written in Devan…