Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities
Pratik Joshi, Christain Barnes, Sebastin Santy, Simran Khanuja, Sanket Shah, Anirudh Srinivasan, Satwik Bhattamishra, Sunayana Sitaram, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali
Abstract
In this paper, we examine and analyze the challenges associated with developing and introducing language technologies to low-resource language communities. While doing so we bring to light the successes and failures of past work in this area, challenges being faced in doing so, and what have they achieved. Throughout this paper, we take a problem-facing approach and describe essential factors which the success of such technologies hinges upon. We present the various aspects in a manner which clarify and lay out the different tasks involved, which can aid organizations looking to make an impact in this area. We take the example of Gondi, an extremely-low resource Indian language, to reinforce and complement our discussion.- Anthology ID:
- 2019.icon-1.25
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
- Editors:
- Dipti Misra Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharya
- Venue:
- ICON
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- NLP Association of India
- Note:
- Pages:
- 211–219
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2019.icon-1.25
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pratik Joshi, Christain Barnes, Sebastin Santy, Simran Khanuja, Sanket Shah, Anirudh Srinivasan, Satwik Bhattamishra, Sunayana Sitaram, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali. 2019. Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 211–219, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. NLP Association of India.
- Cite (Informal):
- Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities (Joshi et al., ICON 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-dup-bibkey/2019.icon-1.25.pdf