Project ELLORA to preserve ‘rare’ Indian languages with AI
02, Feb 2023
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Why in News?
- Microsoft’s Project ELLORA is helping small languages like Gondi, Mundari become eloquent for the digital world.
Project ELLORA:
- To bring ‘rare’ Indian languages online, Microsoft launched the Project ELLORA or Enabling Low Resource Languages in 2015.
- Under the project, researchers are building digital resources of the languages.
- They say that their purpose is to preserve a language for posterity so that users of these languages “can participate and interact in the digital world.”
How is ELLORA creating a language dataset?
- The researchers are mapping out resources, including printed literature, to create a dataset to train their AI model. The team is also working with these communities on the project.
- By involving the community in the data collection process, researchers hope to create a dataset that is both accurate and culturally relevant.
