No Language Left Behind Unlocking Text Data for Under Resourced | AI2

No Language Left Behind Unlocking Text Data for Under Resourced
Shruti Rijhwani

NLP systems are limited by the availability of text data, and because machine-readable text exists only in a few hundred languages, most of the world’s languages are under-represented in modern language technologies.
Text data exists in many more languages! However, it is locked away in printed books and handwritten documents, and training a high-performance optical character recognition (OCR) system to extract the text is challenging for most under-resourced …

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