3 papers
cs.HC2026
Re-educating Educated Ones: A Case Study on Chakma Language Revitalization in Chittagong Hill Tracts
Avijoy Chakma, Adity Khisa, Soham Khisa +2
Indigenous languages face significant cultural oppression from official state languages, particularly in the Global South. We investigate the Bangladeshi Chakma language revitaliza…
cs.CL2025
Exploring Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer via Transliteration-Based MLM Fine-Tuning for Critically Low-resource Chakma Language
Adity Khisa, Nusrat Jahan Lia, Tasnim Mahfuz Nafis +4
As an Indo-Aryan language with limited available data, Chakma remains largely underrepresented in language models. In this work, we introduce a novel corpus of contextually coheren…
cs.CY2025
Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
Abhijit Paul, Adity Khisa, Zarif Masud +3
In this paper, we examine the intersections of indigeneity and media representation in shaping perceptions of indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Using a mixed-methods approach,…