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New AI models tackle low-resource Tangkhul-English translation

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Researchers have developed two neural machine translation systems for the low-resource Tangkhul-English language pair. The primary system, utilizing ByT5-large fine-tuned on over 38,000 parallel sentences, achieved a BLEU score of 39.97. A secondary mT5-small system was also trained for comparison. The study highlights challenges related to Tangkhul's orthography and the domain bias of the training data, suggesting future work in data diversification and domain adaptation. AI

IMPACT Advances machine translation capabilities for under-resourced languages, potentially enabling new communication and information access.

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New AI models tackle low-resource Tangkhul-English translation

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Chormi Zimik Vashai, Agniva Maiti ·

    Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Tangkhul--English

    arXiv:2606.25365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a study on low-resource machine translation for the Tangkhul-English (nmf-en) language pair. Tangkhul is a severely under-resourced Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Manipur, India, with virtually no prior natura…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Agniva Maiti ·

    Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Tangkhul--English

    We present a study on low-resource machine translation for the Tangkhul-English (nmf-en) language pair. Tangkhul is a severely under-resourced Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Manipur, India, with virtually no prior natural language processing infrastructure. We describ…

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