Papers by Pratik Joshi
CoSSAT: Code-Switched Speech Annotation Tool (D19-59)
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| Challenge: | Code-switching is a phenomenon that occurs in multilingual societies where speakers who are fluent in two or more languages switch between these languages in the same conversation or utterance. |
| Approach: | They propose an interface which helps annotators transcribe code-switched speech faster, more easily and more accurately than a traditional interface. |
| Outcome: | The proposed interface can be used by 10 users to transcribe Hindi-English code-switched speech faster, easier and more accurately than a traditional interface. |
Crowdsourcing Speech Data for Low-Resource Languages from Low-Income Workers (2020.lrec-1)
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Basil Abraham, Danish Goel, Divya Siddarth, Kalika Bali, Manu Chopra, Monojit Choudhury, Pratik Joshi, Preethi Jyoti, Sunayana Sitaram, Vivek Seshadri
| Challenge: | Existing platforms collect labelled speech data from urban speakers whose dialects are often very different from low-income users. |
| Approach: | They propose to collect labelled speech data directly from low-income workers . they collect 109 hours of data from 36 participants in the Marathi language . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can provide valuable supplemental earning opportunities to low-income rural and urban workers. |
The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | a small number of the over 7000 languages of the world are represented in the rapidly evolving language technologies and applications. |
| Approach: | They examine the relationship between types of languages, resources, and their representation in NLP conferences to understand the trajectory that different languages have followed over time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model will help to bridge the gap between languages and their resources and convince the ACL community to prioritise the resolution of the predicaments highlighted. |