IndiText Boost: Text Augmentation for Low Resource India Languages

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Auteurs principaux: Litake, Onkar, Yagnik, Niraj, Labhsetwar, Shreyas
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author Litake, Onkar
Yagnik, Niraj
Labhsetwar, Shreyas
author_facet Litake, Onkar
Yagnik, Niraj
Labhsetwar, Shreyas
contents Text Augmentation is an important task for low-resource languages. It helps deal with the problem of data scarcity. A data augmentation strategy is used to deal with the problem of data scarcity. Through the years, much work has been done on data augmentation for the English language. In contrast, very less work has been done on Indian languages. This is contrary to the fact that data augmentation is used to deal with data scarcity. In this work, we focus on implementing techniques like Easy Data Augmentation, Back Translation, Paraphrasing, Text Generation using LLMs, and Text Expansion using LLMs for text classification on different languages. We focus on 6 Indian languages namely: Sindhi, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, and Sanskrit. According to our knowledge, no such work exists for text augmentation on Indian languages. We carry out binary as well as multi-class text classification to make our results more comparable. We get surprising results as basic data augmentation techniques surpass LLMs.
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spellingShingle IndiText Boost: Text Augmentation for Low Resource India Languages
Litake, Onkar
Yagnik, Niraj
Labhsetwar, Shreyas
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Text Augmentation is an important task for low-resource languages. It helps deal with the problem of data scarcity. A data augmentation strategy is used to deal with the problem of data scarcity. Through the years, much work has been done on data augmentation for the English language. In contrast, very less work has been done on Indian languages. This is contrary to the fact that data augmentation is used to deal with data scarcity. In this work, we focus on implementing techniques like Easy Data Augmentation, Back Translation, Paraphrasing, Text Generation using LLMs, and Text Expansion using LLMs for text classification on different languages. We focus on 6 Indian languages namely: Sindhi, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, and Sanskrit. According to our knowledge, no such work exists for text augmentation on Indian languages. We carry out binary as well as multi-class text classification to make our results more comparable. We get surprising results as basic data augmentation techniques surpass LLMs.
title IndiText Boost: Text Augmentation for Low Resource India Languages
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13085