Papers by Priyanka Bedekar
Aksharantar: Open Indic-language Transliteration datasets and models for the Next Billion Users (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Yash Madhani, Sushane Parthan, Priyanka Bedekar, Gokul Nc, Ruchi Khapra, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Pratyush Kumar, Mitesh Khapra
| Challenge: | Indian subcontinent is home to diverse languages written in multiple scripts . widespread use of romanization and lack of standardization means accurate transliteration models form a critical component in the NLP stack for Indian languages used by over 735 million Internet users. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a transliteration dataset using monolingual and parallel corpora and human annotators. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves accuracy by 15% on the Dakshina test set and establishes strong baselines on the Aksharantar test set. |