EVENTS

This workshop may appeal to you if you are a language activist, work in collaboration with language activists or with low-resource languages.

As part of our research, we currently aim to provide NLP tools and models tailored to language organisations and communities.
In this regard, we are pleased to invite you or language activists from your network to our first 2-hour online workshop on tools for low-resource languages. We are currently focusing on languages for which some digital texts are available.
This work is part of an ERC Proof of Concept Grant, which focuses on creating tools for language activists. Additionally, our research group has recently received an ERC Advanced Grant to develop Large Language Models for languages with less digital resources. Both grants enable more long-term collaboration with language communities.

This first session will be in two parts:
- we will present our tool for parallel sentence mining (i.e., finding translation pairs among two monolingual corpora) for low-resource languages. This task constitutes an essential step towards developing a dedicated machine translation system or enabling a large language model to support your language. Details on the tool can be found at https://lnkd.in/ejHBwTDT
- we will show the diversity of possible NLP tools that could be extended to other languages. These will range from spell checkers to speech recognition, but with a strong focus on machine translation and chatbots.
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Institutions

• TUM Heilbronn