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Computational historical linguistics and language diversity in South Asia

arXiv 2203.12524 ↗First posted 23 Mar 2022cs.CLcited by 8

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Abstract (arXiv)

South Asia is home to a plethora of languages, many of which severely lack access to new language technologies. This linguistic diversity also results in a research environment conducive to the study of comparative, contact, and historical linguistics -- fields which necessitate the gathering of extensive data from many languages. We claim that data scatteredness (rather than scarcity) is the primary obstacle in the development of South Asian language technology, and suggest that the study of language history is uniquely aligned with surmounting this obstacle. We review recent developments in and at the intersection of South Asian NLP and historical-comparative linguistics, describing our and others' current efforts in this area. We also offer new strategies towards breaking the data barrier.

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Citing papers per year: 2022: 1; 2023: 3; 2024: 1; 2025: 1; 2026: 2.

8 papers.

  1. 2022Using Linguistic Typology to Enrich Multilingual Lexicons: the Case of Lexical Gaps in Kinshipcited by 9
  2. 2025Bhaasha, Bhasa, Zaban: A Survey for Low-Resourced Languages in South Asia -- Current Stage and Challengescited by 6
  3. 2024Domain-adaptative Continual Learning for Low-resource Tasks: Evaluation on Nepalicited by 5
  4. 2023Prompt Learning to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Cross-lingual Transfer for Open-domain Dialogue Generationcited by 4
  5. 2023Jambu: A historical linguistic database for South Asian languagescited by 3
  6. 2026When Words Don't Mean What They Say: Figurative Understanding in Bengali Idiomscited by 2
  7. 2023IruMozhi: Automatically classifying diglossia in Tamilcited by 1
  8. 2026Large Language Models for Math Education in Low-Resource Languages: A Study in Sinhala and Tamilcited by 0