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Recent Advancements and Challenges of Turkic Central Asian Language Processing

arXiv 2407.05006 ↗First posted 6 Jul 2024cs.CLcited by 6

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Abstract (arXiv)

Research in NLP for Central Asian Turkic languages - Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and Turkmen - faces typical low-resource language challenges like data scarcity, limited linguistic resources and technology development. However, recent advancements have included the collection of language-specific datasets and the development of models for downstream tasks. Thus, this paper aims to summarize recent progress and identify future research directions. It provides a high-level overview of each language's linguistic features, the current technology landscape, the application of transfer learning from higher-resource languages, and the availability of labeled and unlabeled data. By outlining the current state, we hope to inspire and facilitate future research.

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 1; 2025: 0; 2026: 5.

6 papers.

  1. 2024Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)cited by 2
  2. 2026TurkicNLP: An NLP Toolkit for Turkic Languagescited by 1
  3. 2026Why Better Cross-Lingual Alignment Fails for Better Cross-Lingual Transfer: Case of Encoderscited by 0
  4. 2026Multilingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventionscited by 0
  5. 2026KZ-SafetyPrompts: A Kazakh Safety Evaluation Prompt Dataset for Large Language Modelscited by 0
  6. 2026KyrgyzLLM-Bench: Benchmarking Kyrgyz Language Understandingcited by 0