Shashank Siripragada


2020

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A Multilingual Parallel Corpora Collection Effort for Indian Languages
Shashank Siripragada | Jerin Philip | Vinay P. Namboodiri | C V Jawahar
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We present sentence aligned parallel corpora across 10 Indian Languages - Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, and English - many of which are categorized as low resource. The corpora are compiled from online sources which have content shared across languages. The corpora presented significantly extends present resources that are either not large enough or are restricted to a specific domain (such as health). We also provide a separate test corpus compiled from an independent online source that can be independently used for validating the performance in 10 Indian languages. Alongside, we report on the methods of constructing such corpora using tools enabled by recent advances in machine translation and cross-lingual retrieval using deep neural network based methods.

2019

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CVIT’s submissions to WAT-2019
Jerin Philip | Shashank Siripragada | Upendra Kumar | Vinay Namboodiri | C V Jawahar
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation

This paper describes the Neural Machine Translation systems used by IIIT Hyderabad (CVIT-MT) for the translation tasks part of WAT-2019. We participated in tasks pertaining to Indian languages and submitted results for English-Hindi, Hindi-English, English-Tamil and Tamil-English language pairs. We employ Transformer architecture experimenting with multilingual models and methods for low-resource languages.