Text normalization for endangered languages: the case of Ligurian. (arXiv:2206.07861v1 [cs.CL])

Text normalization is a crucial technology for low-resource languages which
lack rigid spelling conventions. Low-resource text normalization has so far
relied upon hand-crafted rules, which are perceived to be more data efficient
than neural methods.

In this paper we examine the case of text normalization for Ligurian, an
endangered Romance language. We collect 4,394 Ligurian sentences paired with
their normalized versions, as well as the first monolingual corpus for
Ligurian. We show that, in spite of the small amounts of …

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