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title = "Towards Low-resource Language Generation with Limited Supervision",
author = "Maurya, Kaushal and
Desarkar, Maunendra",
editor = "Elazar, Yanai and
Ettinger, Allyson and
Kassner, Nora and
Ruder, Sebastian and
A. Smith, Noah",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Big Picture Workshop",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bigpicture-1.7",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bigpicture-1.7",
pages = "80--92",
abstract = "We present a research narrative aimed at enabling language technology for multiple natural language generation (NLG) tasks in low-resource languages (LRLs). With approximately 7,000 languages spoken globally, many lack the resources required for model training. NLG applications for LRLs present two additional key challenges: (i) The training is more pronounced, and (ii) Zero-shot modeling is a viable research direction for scalability; however, generating zero-shot well-formed text in target LRLs is challenging. Addressing these concerns, this narrative introduces three promising research explorations that serve as a step toward enabling language technology for many LRLs. These approaches make effective use of transfer learning and limited supervision techniques for modeling. Evaluations were conducted mostly in the zero-shot setting, enabling scalability. This research narrative is an ongoing doctoral thesis.",
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%D 2023
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Low-resource Language Generation with Limited Supervision](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bigpicture-1.7) (Maurya & Desarkar, BigPicture 2023)
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