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Sheikh Mannan

3 accepted papers

2023

AxomiyaBERTa: A Phonologically-aware Transformer Model for Assamese

ACL 2023findings

Despite their successes in NLP, Transformer-based language models still require extensive computing resources and suffer in low-resource or low-compute settings. In this paper, we present AxomiyaBERTa, a novel BERT model for Assamese, a morphologically-rich low-resource language (LRL) of Eastern Ind…

2022

A Generalized Method for Automated Multilingual Loanword Detection

COLING 2022main

Loanwords are words incorporated from one language into another without translation. Suppose two words from distantly-related or unrelated languages sound similar and have a similar meaning. In that case, this is evidence of likely borrowing. This paper presents a method to automatically detect loan…