Notes

• outlines the state of NLP in low-resource languages and why it matters
• highlights some of the efforts in catering to low-resource language communities
• what are some principles that helped in the successful deployment of tools in low-resource language communities

Joshi, Pratik, Christain Barnes, Sebastin Santy, Simran Khanuja, Sanket Shah, Anirudh Srinivasan, Satwik Bhattamishra, Sunayana Sitaram, Monojit Choudhury, and Kalika Bali. 2019. “Unsung Challenges of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Low Resource Language Communities.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1912.03457.

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"1) Initially launched by seeding with target communities, 2) Worked closely to engage the community itself with the technology and information, and 3) Provided a strong incentive structure to adapt the technology - this incentive could be as simple as payments or as complex as communicated benefits from the technology." (Page 6)