First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India’s Very Low-Resource Languages

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Melkamu Mersha, Ananya Kalita, Olga Kolesnikova, Jugal Kalita


Abstract
This paper presents the creation of initial bilingual corpora for thirteen very low-resource languages of India, all from Northeast India. It also presents the results of initial translation efforts in these languages. It creates the first-ever parallel corpora for these languages and provides initial benchmark neural machine translation results for these languages. We intend to extend these corpora to include a large number of low-resource Indian languages and integrate the effort with our prior work with African and American-Indian languages to create corpora covering a large number of languages from across the world.
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2023.icon-1.49
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Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2023
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Goa University, Goa, India
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Jyoti D. Pawar, Sobha Lalitha Devi
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ICON
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SIGLEX
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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534–539
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Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Melkamu Mersha, Ananya Kalita, Olga Kolesnikova, and Jugal Kalita. 2023. First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India’s Very Low-Resource Languages. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 534–539, Goa University, Goa, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India’s Very Low-Resource Languages (Tonja et al., ICON 2023)
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