@inproceedings{maurya-desarkar-2023-towards,
    title = "Towards Low-resource Language Generation with Limited Supervision",
    author = "Maurya, Kaushal  and
      Desarkar, Maunendra",
    editor = "Elazar, Yanai  and
      Ettinger, Allyson  and
      Kassner, Nora  and
      Ruder, Sebastian  and
      A. Smith, Noah",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Big Picture Workshop",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2023.bigpicture-1.7/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bigpicture-1.7",
    pages = "80--92",
    abstract = "We present a research narrative aimed at enabling language technology for multiple natural language generation (NLG) tasks in low-resource languages (LRLs). With approximately 7,000 languages spoken globally, many lack the resources required for model training. NLG applications for LRLs present two additional key challenges: (i) The training is more pronounced, and (ii) Zero-shot modeling is a viable research direction for scalability; however, generating zero-shot well-formed text in target LRLs is challenging. Addressing these concerns, this narrative introduces three promising research explorations that serve as a step toward enabling language technology for many LRLs. These approaches make effective use of transfer learning and limited supervision techniques for modeling. Evaluations were conducted mostly in the zero-shot setting, enabling scalability. This research narrative is an ongoing doctoral thesis."
}