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%A B, Bharathi
%A Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja
%A N, Sripriya
%A Natarajan, Rajeswari
%A Rajalakshmi, Ratnavel
%A S, Suhasini
%Y Gkirtzou, Katerina
%Y Žitnik, Slavko
%Y Gracia, Jorge
%Y Gromann, Dagmar
%Y di Buono, Maria Pia
%Y Monti, Johanna
%Y Ionov, Maxim
%S Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion
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%I Unior Press
%C Naples, Italy
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Markdown (Informal)
[Overview of the Fifth Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil](https://aclanthology.org/2025.ltedi-1.37/) (B et al., LTEDI 2025)
ACL
- Bharathi B, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Sripriya N, Rajeswari Natarajan, Ratnavel Rajalakshmi, and Suhasini S. 2025. Overview of the Fifth Shared Task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge: Fifth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, pages 235–241, Naples, Italy. Unior Press.