# Language Agnostic Data-Driven Inverse Text Normalization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08506 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.08506/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 16 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 20 Jan 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [SentencePiece: A simple and language independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer for Neural Text Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.06226/) (2018)
- [No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.04672/) (2022)
- [Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1508.04025/) (2015)
- [Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.09813/) (2020)
- [Neural Inverse Text Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.06380/) (2021)
- [A Unified Transformer-based Framework for Duplex Text Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.09889/) (2021)
- [Thutmose Tagger: Single-pass neural model for Inverse Text Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.00064/) (2022)
- [Streaming, fast and accurate on-device Inverse Text Normalization for Automatic Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.03721/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Towards Efficient Simultaneous Inverse Text Normalization with Pretrained Text-to-Text Language Model and Read-Tag-Write Policy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.19492/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With the emergence of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, converting the spoken form text (from ASR) to the written form is in urgent need. This inverse text normalization (ITN) problem attracts the attention of researchers from various fields. Recently, several works show that data-driven ITN methods can output high-quality written form text. Due to the scarcity of labeled spoken-written datasets, the studies on non-English data-driven ITN are quite limited. In this work, we propose a language-agnostic data-driven ITN framework to fill this gap. Specifically, we leverage the data augmentation in conjunction with neural machine translated data for low resource languages. Moreover, we design an evaluation method for language agnostic ITN model when only English data is available. Our empirical evaluation shows this language agnostic modeling approach is effective for low resource languages while preserving the performance for high resource languages.