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Koshur Pixel: a large-scale synthetic ocr dataset for kashmiri
Jun 22, 2026Haq Nawaz Malik, Faizan Iqbal, Nahfid NissarOptical Character Recognition Low-Resource Languages
IndicGuard: A Multilingual Safety Guard Model and Dataset for Indic Languages
Jun 22, 2026Parth Bramhecha, Smit Deshmukh, Sairaj Bodhale +2Multilingual Safety Large Language Model Safety
Are Multilingual Models Actually Improving? Isolating True Cross-Lingual Transfer
Jun 20, 2026Prasoon Bajpai, Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry +2Cross-Lingual Transfer Multilingual Language Models
The Language-Energy Divide: Measuring Energy Costs of Multilingual LLM Inference
Jun 20, 2026Naihao Deng, Alissa Shen, Yiming Feng +5Multilingual Large Language Models LLM Inference Efficiency
Leveraging LaBSE with Progressive Curriculum Learning for Multicultural Polarization
Jun 19, 2026Sachin Sundar, Sandeep Kumar, Mothish MPolarization Low-Resource Languages
CzechDocs: A Multiway Parallel Dataset of Formatted Documents for Minority Languages in Czechia
Jun 18, 2026Josef Jon, Ondřej BojarMachine Translation Multilingual Data
Responsible ASR: Overcoming Challenges of Foundational Models in Narrow-Band and Low-Resource Settings
Jun 17, 2026Tejas Godambe, Nutan Choudhary, Sanket Shah +2Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Low-Resource Languages
Low-resource Language Discrimination Towards Chinese Dialects with Transfer learning and Data Augmentation
Jun 17, 2026Fan Xu, Yangjie Dan, Keyu Yan +2Dialects Llm-Based Automatic Speech Recognition
Want Better Synthetic Data? Steer It: Activation Steering for Low-Resource Language Generation
Jun 16, 2026Jan Cegin, Daniil Gurgurov, Yusser Al Ghussin +1Synthetic Data Large Language Model Generation
Improving low-resource ASR using bilingual fine-tuning with language identification: a cross-linguistic evaluation
Jun 16, 2026Reihaneh Amooie, Yun Hao, Wietse de Vries +3Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition Multilingual Language Models
A Text Recognition Dataset from Sahidic Coptic Ancient Manuscripts
Jun 14, 2026Fabio Quattrini, Carmine Zaccagnino, Costanza Bianchi +2Handwritten Text Recognition Low-Resource Languages
ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages
Jun 11, 2026Tanmoy Kanti Halder, Akash Ghosh, Subhadip Baidya +2Multimodal Clinical Data Multi-Modal Large Language Models
Semantic Grading of Written Answers in Low-Resource Language Bangla Using a Fine-Tuned Lightweight Language Model
Jun 10, 2026Meherun Farzana, Aniket Joarder, Mahmudul Hasan +1Bangla Grading
Data Synthesis and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource NMT: A Case Study on Q'eqchi' Mayan
Jun 8, 2026Alexander Chulzhanov, Soeren Eberhardt, Arjun MukherjeeNeural Machine Translation Models Low-Resource Languages
OpenBibleTTS: Large-Scale Speech Resources and TTS Models for Low-Resource Languages
Jun 8, 2026David Guzmán, Luel Hagos Beyene, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi +3Librispeech Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech
Overcoming Decoder Inconsistencies in Whisper for Dravidian and Low-Resource Languages
Jun 8, 2026Chowdam Venkata Kumar, Kumud Tripathi, Pankaj WasnikMultilingual Automatic Speech Recognition Low-Resource Languages
Modular Monolingual Adaptation using Pretrained Language Models
Jun 4, 2026Nalin Kumar, Ondřej DušekMultilingual Language Models Low-Resource Languages
Reinforcement Learning Elicits Contextual Learning of Unseen Language Translation
Jun 4, 2026Hanxu Hu, Zdeněk Šnajdr, Pinzhen Chen +2In-Context Learning Low-Resource Languages
"Chi nas dal soch el sent de legn" -- Auditing Text Corpora for Lombard
Jun 4, 2026Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel RychlýText Corpora Low-Resource Languages
CHALIS: A Challenge Dataset for Language Identification in Difficult Scenarios
Jun 4, 2026Michal Tichý, Jindřich LibovickýLow-Resource Languages
GlossAssist -- A Tool to Simplify Corpus Creation and Study the Effect of NLP Models in Low-Resource Documentation Settings
Jun 3, 2026Bhargav Shandilya, Matt Buchholz, Alexis PalmerLinguistics Text Corpora
SEA-NLI: Natural Language Inference as a Lens into Southeast Asian Cultural Understanding
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Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages
Jun 1, 2026Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida +16Multilingual Idioms Low-Resource Languages
Multilinguality of Large Language Models From a Structural Perspective
Jun 1, 2026Haruki Sakajo, Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito +1Multilingual Large Language Models Multilingual
TukaBench: A Culturally Grounded Jailbreak Benchmark for African Languages
May 31, 2026Victor Akinode, Senyu Li, Wassim Hamidouche +3Large Language Model Safety African Languages
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May 31, 2026Ikhlasul Akmal Hanif, Muhammad Falensi Azmi, Filbert Aurelian Tjiaranata +2Large Language Model Bias Low-Resource Languages
Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages
May 29, 2026Gerrit Quaremba, Amy Rechkemmer, Elizabeth Black +2Low-Resource Languages Wikipedia
Can Large Language Models Handle Discourse Particles? A Case Study of Colloquial Malay
May 27, 2026Mariah Al Giptiah Binte Yusoff, Jakin Tan, Bocheng Chen +2Large Language Model Performance Linguistics
Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua
May 27, 2026Elwin Huaman, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Johanna Cordova +1Low-Resource Languages Wav2Vec
PashtoTTS-Bench: automated screening for low-resource non-Latin-script text-to-speech
May 26, 2026Hanif RahmanZero-Shot Text-To-Speech Low-Resource Languages
AlbanianLLMSafety: A Safety Evaluation Dataset for Large Language Models in Albanian
May 26, 2026Wajdi Zaghouani, Kholoud K. Aldous, Isra FejzullajLarge Language Model Safety Low-Resource Languages
FTibSuite: A Comprehensive Resource Suite for Tibetan Vision-Language Modeling
May 26, 2026Guixian Xu, Yide Liang, Zeli Su +5Large Vision Language Models Multimodal Benchmarks
SomaliBench Eval: Measuring English-to-Somali Refusal Gaps in Open-Weight Language Models
May 25, 2026Khalid Yusuf DahirLarge Language Model Safety Low-Resource Languages
The Tokenizer Tax Across 25 European Languages: Domain Invariance, Cross-Lingual Few-Shot Effects, and the Ukrainian Penalty
May 23, 2026Volodymyr OvcharovSubword Tokenization Tokenization
Multilingual Knowledge Transfer under Data Constraints via Lexical Interventions
May 22, 2026Anastasiia Sedova, Natalie Schluter, Skyler Seto +1Cross-Lingual Transfer Cross-Task Knowledge Transfer
Evaluation of Chunking Strategies for Effective Text Embedding in Low-Resource Language on Agricultural Documents
May 21, 2026Sovandara Chhoun, Pichdara Po, Sereiwathna Ros +2Chunk Low-Resource Languages
From Lexicon to AI: A Structured-Data Pipeline for Specialized Conversational Systems in Low-Resource Languages
May 21, 2026Siddhant Hitesh Mantri, Dhara Gorasiya, Malhar Kulkarni +1Low-Resource Languages Linguistics
Do LLMs Know What Luxembourgish Borrows? Probing Lexical Neology in Low-Resource Multilingual Models
May 20, 2026Nina Hosseini-KivananiMultilingual Large Language Models Multilingual Language Models
Building Arabic NLP from the Ground Up: Twenty Years of Lessons, Failures, and Open Problems
May 20, 2026Wajdi ZaghouaniArabic Natural Language Processing Arabic
Retrieval-Augmented Long-Context Translation for Cultural Image Captioning: Gators submission for AmericasNLP 2026 shared task
May 20, 2026Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Dzmitry Kasinets +2Video Captioning Machine Translation Models
Can Large Language Models Reliably Correct Errors in Low-Resource ASR? A Contamination-Aware Case Study on West Frisian
May 19, 2026Yun Hao, Reihaneh Amooie, Wietse de Vries +2Low-Resource Languages Large Language Model Performance
The Annotation Scarcity Paradox in Low-Resource NLP Evaluation: A Decade of Acceleration and Emerging Constraints
May 18, 2026Vukosi MarivateLegal Natural Language Processing Benchmarks Data Scarcity
Multilingual jailbreaking of LLMs using low-resource languages
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SomaliWeb v1: A Quality-Filtered Somali Web Corpus with a Matched Tokenizer and a Public Language-Identification Benchmark
May 18, 2026Khalid Yusuf DahirText Corpora Low-Resource Languages
How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking
May 18, 2026Rafid Ahmed, Intesar Tahmid, Mir Sazzat Hossain +3Medical Visual Question Answering Bangla
Beyond Catalogue Counts: the Dataset Visibility Asymmetry in Low-Resource Multilingual NLP
May 17, 2026Zhiyin Tan, Changxu DuanLow-Resource Languages Multilingual Data
Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs in the Wild: Building for Low-Resource Languages
May 16, 2026Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Enamul Hoque PrinceLow-Resource Languages Multi-Modal Large Language Models
ML-Embed: Inclusive and Efficient Embeddings for a Multilingual World
May 14, 2026Ziyin Zhang, Zihan Liao, Hang Yu +2Domain-Invariant Text Embeddings Matryoshka Representation Learning
WARDEN: Endangered Indigenous Language Transcription and Translation with 6 Hours of Training Data
May 13, 2026Ziheng Zhang, Yunzhong Hou, Naijing Liu +1Low-Resource Languages Transcription
Mix, Don't Tune: Bilingual Pre-Training Outperforms Hyperparameter Search in Data-Constrained Settings
May 13, 2026Paul Jeha, Anastasiia Sedova, Louis Béthune +4Multilingual Language Models Low-Resource Languages
Sign Language Recognition and Translation for Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Pathways Forward
May 12, 2026Nigar Alishzade, Gulchin AbdullayevaSign Language Recognition Low-Resource Languages
Towards Visually-Guided Movie Subtitle Translation for Indic Languages
May 12, 2026Tarun Chintada, Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Asif EkbalAudio-Visual Consistency Low-Resource Languages
Why Low-Resource NLP Needs More Than Cross-Lingual Transfer: Lessons Learned from Luxembourgish
May 11, 2026Fred Philippy, Siwen Guo, Jacques Klein +1Cross-Lingual Transfer Low-Resource Languages
Linear Semantic Segmentation for Low-Resource Spoken Dialects
May 7, 2026Kirill Chirkunov, Younes Samih, Abed Alhakim Freihat +1Dialects Arabic
In Data or Invisible: Toward a Better Digital Representation of Low-Resource Languages with Knowledge Graphs
May 7, 2026Ndeye-Emilie MbengueLow-Resource Languages English
Which Are the Low-Resource Languages of the Semantic Web?
May 7, 2026Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue, Pierre Monnin, Miguel Couceiro +1Low-Resource Languages Cross-Lingual Transfer
Adapting Large Language Models to a Low-Resource Agglutinative Language: A Comparative Study of LoRA and QLoRA for Bashkir
May 6, 2026Mullosharaf K. Arabov, Svetlana S. KhaybullinaLarge Language Model Quantization Low-Rank Adaptation
TajikNLP: An Open-Source Toolkit for Comprehensive Text Processing of Tajik (Cyrillic Script)
May 6, 2026Mullosharif K. Arabov, Karomatullo Habibullozoda, Nurali ShirinovLatin Low-Resource Languages
Benchmarking Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Low-Resource Tajik Text Generation with the Tajik Web Corpus
May 5, 2026Mullosharaf K. ArabovLarge Language Model Fine-Tuning Low-Resource Languages
AfriVox-v2: A Domain-Verticalized Benchmark for In-the-Wild African Speech Recognition
May 5, 2026Busayo Awobade, Gabrial Zencha Ashungafac, Tobi OlatunjiAfrican Languages Multilingual Benchmark

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Koshur Pixel: a large-scale synthetic ocr dataset for kashmiri

Haq Nawaz Malik, Faizan Iqbal, Nahfid Nissar

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for low-resource languages is often constrained by the lack of annotated training data and the complexity of script-specific rendering. Kashmiri, written primarily in the Perso-Arabic Nastaliq script, presents additional challenges due to contextual glyph shaping, dense ligatures, and orthographic variability. We introduce Koshur Pixel, the first large-scale synthetic OCR dataset for Kashmiri, comprising 613,078 image-text pairs generated from the KS-PRET-5M corpus using the SynthOCR-Gen framework. The dataset spans multiple fonts and textual granularities, ranging from individual words to full-page documents, and incorporates more than 25 augmentation strategies that emulate real-world document degradations. Koshur Pixel provides a scalable and cost-effective alternative to manual annotation, establishing a foundational resource for training OCR systems, digitizing Kashmiri textual heritage, and advancing language technologies for a severely under-resourced language.

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