A new paper presented this week by researchers from MBZUAI and UC Berkeley at the EMNLP conference in Miami explains why Romanian or Cherokee (a language spoken by 2,000 people in the United States) can both be considered low resource, albeit for different reasons.
Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/p/better-definition-low-resource-languages
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