Towards Enhancing Knowledge Accessibility for Low-Resource Indian Languages: A Template Based Approach

Srijith Padakanti, Akhilesh Aravapalli, Abhijith Chelpuri, Radhika Mamidi


Abstract
In today’s digital age, access to knowledge and information is crucial for societal growth. Although widespread resources like Wikipedia exist, there is still a linguistic barrier to breakdown for low-resource languages. In India, millions of individuals still lack access to reliable information from Wikipedia because they are only proficient in their regional language. To address this gap, our work focuses on enhancing the content and digital footprint of multiple Indian languages. The primary objective of our work is to improve knowledge accessibility by generating a substantial volume of high-quality Wikipedia articles in Telugu, a widely spoken language in India with around 95.7 million native speakers. Our work aims to create Wikipedia articles and also ensures that each article meets necessary quality standards such as a minimum word count, inclusion of images for reference, and an infobox. Our work also adheres to the five core principles of Wikipedia. We streamline our article generation process, leveraging NLP techniques such as translation, transliteration, and template generation and incorporating human intervention when necessary. Our contribution is a collection of 8,929 articles in the movie domain, now ready to be published on Telugu Wikipedia.
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2024.icon-1.38
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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2024
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AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India
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Sobha Lalitha Devi, Karunesh Arora
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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332–336
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Srijith Padakanti, Akhilesh Aravapalli, Abhijith Chelpuri, and Radhika Mamidi. 2024. Towards Enhancing Knowledge Accessibility for Low-Resource Indian Languages: A Template Based Approach. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 332–336, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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