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title = "First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of {N}ortheast {I}ndia{'}s Very Low-Resource Languages",
author = "Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and
Mersha, Melkamu and
Kalita, Ananya and
Kolesnikova, Olga and
Kalita, Jugal",
editor = "D. Pawar, Jyoti and
Lalitha Devi, Sobha",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Goa University, Goa, India",
publisher = "NLP Association of India (NLPAI)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.icon-1.49",
pages = "534--539",
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%T First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India’s Very Low-Resource Languages
%A Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo
%A Mersha, Melkamu
%A Kalita, Ananya
%A Kolesnikova, Olga
%A Kalita, Jugal
%Y D. Pawar, Jyoti
%Y Lalitha Devi, Sobha
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%X 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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%P 534-539
Markdown (Informal)
[First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India’s Very Low-Resource Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2023.icon-1.49) (Tonja et al., ICON 2023)
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