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Informal transliteration from other languages to English is prevalent in social media threads, instant messaging, and discussion forums. Without identifying the language of such transliterated text, users who do not speak that language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Sourav Sen

Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD) is one of the foundational building blocks of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with incorrectly split sentences heavily influencing the output quality of downstream tasks. It is a challenging task for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tobias Brugger , Matthias Stürmer , Joel Niklaus

Language Identification (LID) is a crucial preliminary process in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) that involves the identification of a spoken language from audio samples. Contemporary systems that can process speech in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Atanu Mandal , Santanu Pal , Indranil Dutta , Mahidas Bhattacharya , Sudip Kumar Naskar

Language identification (LID) has relevance in many speech processing applications. For the automatic recognition of code-switching speech, the conventional approaches often employ an LID system for detecting the languages present within an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Sreeram Ganji , Kunal Dhawan , Kumar Priyadarshi , Rohit Sinha

Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in many natural language processing pipelines. However, current LID systems are far from perfect, particularly on lower-resource languages. We present a LID model which achieves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Laurie Burchell , Alexandra Birch , Nikolay Bogoychev , Kenneth Heafield

This paper presents our modeling and architecture approaches for building a highly accurate low-latency language identification system to support multilingual spoken queries for voice assistants. A common approach to solve multilingual…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Chander Chandak , Zeynab Raeesy , Ariya Rastrow , Yuzong Liu , Xiangyang Huang , Siyu Wang , Dong Kwon Joo , Roland Maas

This memo describes NTR-TSU submission for SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task on predicting language IDs from speech. Spoken Language Identification (LID) is an important step in a multilingual Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) system pipeline. For…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Roman Bedyakin , Nikolay Mikhaylovskiy

Multilingual spoken dialogue systems have gained prominence in the recent past necessitating the requirement for a front-end Language Identification (LID) system. Most of the existing LID systems rely on modeling the language discriminative…

In computer vision, multi-label recognition are important tasks with many real-world applications, but classifying previously unseen labels remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm, Aligned Dual moDality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shichao Xu , Yikang Li , Jenhao Hsiao , Chiuman Ho , Zhu Qi

Effective organization of in-context learning (ICL) demonstrations is key to improving the quality of large language model (LLM) responses. To create better sample-label pairs that instruct LLM understanding, we introduce logit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhu Zixiao , Feng Zijian , Zhou Hanzhang , Qian Junlang , Mao Kezhi

Language identification (LID) is a critical step in curating multilingual LLM pretraining corpora from web crawls. While many studies on LID model training focus on collecting diverse training data to improve performance, low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Negar Foroutan , Jakhongir Saydaliev , Ye Eun Kim , Antoine Bosselut

This memo describes NTR/TSU winning submission for Low Resource ASR challenge at Dialog2021 conference, language identification track. Spoken Language Identification (LID) is an important step in a multilingual Automated Speech Recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Roman Bedyakin , Nikolay Mikhaylovskiy

The Romansh language has several regional varieties, called idioms, which sometimes have limited mutual intelligibility. Despite this linguistic diversity, there has been a lack of documented efforts to build a language identification (LID)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Charlotte Model , Sina Ahmadi , Jannis Vamvas

The task of automatic language identification (LID) involving multiple dialects of the same language family in the presence of noise is a challenging problem. In these scenarios, the identity of the language/dialect may be reliably present…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Bharat Padi , Anand Mohan , Sriram Ganapathy

We address fine-grained multilingual language identification: providing a language code for every token in a sentence, including codemixed text containing multiple languages. Such text is prevalent online, in documents, social media, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Yuan Zhang , Jason Riesa , Daniel Gillick , Anton Bakalov , Jason Baldridge , David Weiss

Language Identification (LI) is an important first step in several speech processing systems. With a growing number of voice-based assistants, speech LI has emerged as a widely researched field. To approach the problem of identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Sarthak , Shikhar Shukla , Govind Mittal

language identification (LID) is identifing a language in a given spoken utterance. Language segmentation is equally inportant as language identification where language boundaries can be spotted in a multi language utterance. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Anirban Bhowmick , Astik Biswas

Language identification (LID) is a crucial precursor for NLP, especially for mining web data. Problematically, most of the world's 7000+ languages today are not covered by LID technologies. We address this pressing issue for Africa by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Ife Adebara , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte

Of the over 7,000 languages spoken in the world, commercial language identification (LID) systems only reliably identify a few hundred in written form. Research-grade systems extend this coverage under certain circumstances, but for most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rasul Dent , Pedro Ortiz Suarez , Thibault Clérice , Benoît Sagot

In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for text-independent speaker identification system: Multi-Label Training (MLT). Instead of the commonly used one-to-one correspondence between the speech and the speaker label, we divide all the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Yuqi Xue