Gamayun - Language Technology for Humanitarian Response

被引:9
作者
Oktem, Alp [1 ]
Jaam, Muhannad Albayk [1 ]
DeLuca, Eric [1 ]
Tang, Grace [1 ]
机构
[1] Translators Borders, Danbury, CT 06810 USA
来源
2020 IEEE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (GHTC) | 2020年
关键词
language technology; machine translation; automatic speech recognition; low-resource languages;
D O I
10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342939
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Over half of the world's population do not have access to knowledge and information because it's not available in their language. Translators without Borders (TWB) wants to change this with Gamayun, an initiative to promote language equality. Gamayun uses advanced language technologies to improve communication with people who speak marginalized languages in humanitarian and development contexts. In this paper, we present the early implementation results of the project in building machine translation and automatic speech recognition systems for various marginalized languages.
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