Papers by Venkanna U
Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi (2020.lrec-1)
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Devansh Mehta, Sebastin Santy, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Alok Sharma, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Venkanna U, Amit Sharma, Kalika Bali
| Challenge: | 40% of all the languages in the world face the danger of extinction in the near future . when a language dies out, future generations lose a vital part of the culture that is necessary to completely understand it. |
| Approach: | They propose to use 4 technology-driven methods of data collection to collect data on Gondi, a low-resource vulnerable language spoken by 2.3 million tribal people in south and central India. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods collected 12,000 translated words and/or sentences and identified more than 650 community members whose help can be solicited for future translation efforts. |