Awais Athar

2 accepted papers

2025

WER We Stand: Benchmarking Urdu ASR Models

Samee Arif, Aamina Jamal Khan, Mustafa Abbas, Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar

COLING 2025main

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of Urdu Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models. We analyze the performance of three ASR model families: Whisper, MMS, and Seamless-M4T using Word Error Rate (WER), along with a detailed examination of the most frequent wrong words and error types inc…

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2024

UQA: Corpus for Urdu Question Answering

Samee Arif, Sualeha Farid, Awais Athar, Agha Ali Raza

COLING 2024main

This paper introduces UQA, a novel dataset for question answering and text comprehension in Urdu, a low-resource language with over 70 million native speakers. UQA is generated by translating the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD2.0), a large-scale English QA dataset, using a technique call…

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