5 papers
Easper: An Accessible ASR Pipeline for Language Documentation
Aso Mahmudi, Ting Dang, Ekaterina Vylomova +1
Audio transcription is a critical bottleneck in language documentation. While multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models like Whisper offer solutions, field linguists o…
Continual Adaptation for Pacific Indigenous Speech Recognition
Yang Xiao, Aso Mahmudi, Nick Thieberger +3
Speech foundation models struggle with low-resource Pacific Indigenous languages because of severe data scarcity. Furthermore, full fine-tuning risks catastrophic forgetting. To ad…
MUDIDI: A Two-Stage Framework for Multilingual Dictionary Digitization with Language Models
David Setiawan, Temuulen Khishigsuren, Milind Agarwal +3
Multilingual dictionaries are among the most valuable documentary resources for low-resource and endangered languages, yet many remain available only as scans. For many decades, th…
CommonMorph: Participatory Morphological Documentation Platform
Aso Mahmudi, Sina Ahmadi, Kemal Kurniawan +3
Collecting and annotating morphological data present significant challenges, requiring linguistic expertise, methodological rigour, and substantial resources. These barriers are pa…
Can a Neural Model Guide Fieldwork? A Case Study on Morphological Data Collection
Aso Mahmudi, Borja Herce, Demian Inostroza Amestica +3
Linguistic fieldwork is an important component in language documentation and preservation. However, it is a long, exhaustive, and time-consuming process. This paper presents a nove…