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.CL2026
ChakmaNMT: Machine Translation for a Low-Resource and Endangered Language via Transliteration
Aunabil Chakma, Aditya Chakma, Masum Hasan +3
We present the first systematic study of machine translation for Chakma, an endangered and extremely low-resource Indo-Aryan language, with the goal of supporting language access a…
cs.LG2025
VaCDA: Variational Contrastive Alignment-based Scalable Human Activity Recognition
Soham Khisa, Avijoy Chakma
Technological advancements have led to the rise of wearable devices with sensors that continuously monitor user activities, generating vast amounts of unlabeled data. This data is…