Tools and Resources for Low-resource Languages
Course web page, Summer 2023 SfS, University of Tübingen

This is the course page for the summer semester 2023 seminar on Tools for Resources for Low-resource Languages at the Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen.

During the past few decades, natural language processing (NLP) has seen a strong shift towards data-driven methods. A similar shift is also observed in linguistics research, where data-driven, quantitative approaches have been replacing some of the earlier methodologies. However, there is a strong imbalance between the languages of the world with respect to the availability of tools and resources for NLP and linguistic research.

This is a project-based course where the participants learn by developing tools or linguistic resources for low-resource settings. The typical resources include treebanks, and lexical resources. Creation of annotated datasets for particular NLP applications, evaluating and/or extending available, but limited resources and tools, and experiments with dealing with low-resource scenarios (e.g., transfer learning, data augmentation, distant supervision) are also possible areas to focus on this course.

The course can be taken for 3, 6 and 9CP.

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