The Bahnar, a minority ethnic group in Vietnam with ancient roots, hold a language of deep cultural and historical significance. The government is prioritizing the preservation and dissemination of Bahnaric through online availability and cross-generational communication. Recent AI advances, including Neural Machine Translation (NMT), have transformed translation with improved accuracy and fluency, fostering language revitalization through learning, communication, and documentation. In particular, NMT enhances accessibility for Bahnaric speakers, making information and content more available.

However, translating Vietnamese to Bahnaric faces practical hurdles due to resource limitations, particularly in the case of Bahnaric as an extremely low-resource language. These challenges encompass data scarcity, vocabulary constraints, and a lack of fine-tuning data. To address these, we propose transfer learning from selected pre-trained models to optimize translation quality and computational efficiency, capitalizing on linguistic similarities between Vietnamese and Bahnaric. Concurrently, we apply tailored augmentation strategies to adapt machine translation for the Vietnamese-Bahnaric context. Our approach is validated through superior results on bilingual Vietnamese-Bahnaric datasets when compared to baseline models.

Revitalizing Bahnaric Language through Neural Machine Translation: Challenges, Strategies, and Promising Outcomes | VIDEO

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