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Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Southern Uzbek (uzs) is a Turkic language variety spoken by around 5 million people in Afghanistan and differs significantly from Northern Uzbek (uzn) in phonology, lexicon, and orthography.Despite the large number of speakers, Southern Uzbek is underrepresented in natural language processing.We present new resources for Southern Uzbek machine translation, including a 997-sentence FLORES+ dev set, 39,994 parallel sentences from dictionary, literary, and web sources, and a fine-tuned .We also propose a post-processing method for restoring Arabicscript half-space characters, which improves handling of morphological boundaries.All datasets, models, and tools are released publicly to support future work on Southern Uzbek and other low-resource languages.

Source: Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.wmt-1.83

Authors: Mukhammadsaid Mamasaidov, Azizullah Aral, Abror Shopulatov, Mironshoh Inomjonov

Institutions: Uzbekistan National Institute of Musical Art named after Yunus Rajabi, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Language: English

Topic: Natural Language Processing Techniques

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4416033696

FWCI: 2.886

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