Multilingualism in Natural Language Processing: Targeting Low Resource Indian Languages
Introduction
A language is a systematic form of communication that can take a variety of forms. There are approximately 7,000 languages believed to be spoken across the globe. Despite this diversity, the majority of the world’s population speaks only a fraction of these languages. In Spite of such a rich diversity Languages are still evolving across time much like the society we live in.
While the English language is uniform, having the distinct status of being the official language of multiple countries there are varieties of English too like American English, British English, and so on. For example, Colloquial Singaporean English, better known as Singlish, is an English-based creole language spoken in Singapore. The term Singlish is a blend of Singaporean slang, English, and other local delicacies which has unique grammar different from that of English and Mandarin Chinese.
And when we build an NLP system we should also be able to provide it to the speakers of the Singlish language which constitutes millions of people. The next example is African languages in Africa