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title = "The {I}ndonesian Religiolect Corpus: Data Curation for Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic Language Varieties",
author = "Sachs, Dan",
editor = "Hettiarachchi, Hansi and
Ranasinghe, Tharindu and
Plum, Alistair and
Rayson, Paul and
Mitkov, Ruslan and
Gaber, Mohamed and
Premasiri, Damith and
Tan, Fiona Anting and
Uyangodage, Lasitha",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages ({L}o{R}es{LM} 2026)",
month = mar,
year = "2026",
address = "Rabat, Morocco",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.36/",
pages = "426--435",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-377-7",
abstract = "Religiolects{---}language varieties shaped by re- ligious community identity{---}are low-resource domains often overlooked within high-resource languages. We present the Indo-Religiolect Corpus, the first large-scale dataset for In- donesian religious language variation, con- taining 3 million sentences from over 100 institutional websites representing Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant communities. Fine- tuning IndoBERT demonstrates these religi- olects are computationally distinguishable: Is- lamic Indonesian exhibits high distinctiveness (91.73{\%}), while Catholic and Protestant vari- eties share substantial lexical overlap yet retain detectable shibboleths (86.41{\%} and 86.64{\%}). Our findings indicate a potential for represen- tation collapse: models trained on majority- normative data may default to secular or Muslim-dominant Indonesian, blurring distinct minority voices. We hypothesize that these gaps plausibly translate into downstream fair- ness risks for applications like content mod- eration and automated hiring. This corpus of- fers a template for documenting sub-national varieties, advancing linguistic equity beyond ``National Language'' benchmarks toward ``No Language Variety Left Behind.''"
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The Indonesian Religiolect Corpus: Data Curation for Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic Language Varieties
%A Sachs, Dan
%Y Hettiarachchi, Hansi
%Y Ranasinghe, Tharindu
%Y Plum, Alistair
%Y Rayson, Paul
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
%Y Gaber, Mohamed
%Y Premasiri, Damith
%Y Tan, Fiona Anting
%Y Uyangodage, Lasitha
%S Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026)
%D 2026
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Rabat, Morocco
%@ 979-8-89176-377-7
%F sachs-2026-indonesian
%X Religiolects—language varieties shaped by re- ligious community identity—are low-resource domains often overlooked within high-resource languages. We present the Indo-Religiolect Corpus, the first large-scale dataset for In- donesian religious language variation, con- taining 3 million sentences from over 100 institutional websites representing Muslim, Catholic, and Protestant communities. Fine- tuning IndoBERT demonstrates these religi- olects are computationally distinguishable: Is- lamic Indonesian exhibits high distinctiveness (91.73%), while Catholic and Protestant vari- eties share substantial lexical overlap yet retain detectable shibboleths (86.41% and 86.64%). Our findings indicate a potential for represen- tation collapse: models trained on majority- normative data may default to secular or Muslim-dominant Indonesian, blurring distinct minority voices. We hypothesize that these gaps plausibly translate into downstream fair- ness risks for applications like content mod- eration and automated hiring. This corpus of- fers a template for documenting sub-national varieties, advancing linguistic equity beyond “National Language” benchmarks toward “No Language Variety Left Behind.”
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.36/
%P 426-435
Markdown (Informal)
[The Indonesian Religiolect Corpus: Data Curation for Muslim, Protestant, and Catholic Language Varieties](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.36/) (Sachs, LoResLM 2026)
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