NusaAksara: A Multimodal and Multilingual Benchmark for Preserving Indonesian Indigenous Scripts (2025.acl-long)
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Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Musa Izzanardi Wijanarko, Lucky Susanto, Khumaisa Nur’aini, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Alham Fikri Aji
| Challenge: | NusaAksara covers 8 scripts across 7 languages, including low-resource languages not commonly seen in NLP benchmarks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for Indonesian scripts that includes their original scripts and a dataset that includes 8 scripts across 7 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark covers 8 scripts across 7 languages, including low-resource languages not commonly seen in NLP benchmarks. |
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