@ IIT Madras
The AI4Bharat Initiative
Mission statement of the Initiative
Bring parity in AI technology for Indian languages with English
Make fundamental contributions to state-of-the-art across language technologies - NLP, Speech, Sign language, OCR
Open source all datasets and AI models with permissible licenses
Build a coalition of partners to collect datasets and deploy models
Associate Professor, IIT Madras
PhD, IIT Bombay
Areas - NLP, Deep Learning
Mitesh M. Khapra
Pratyush Kumar
Our Team
Anoop Kunchukuttan
Assistant Professor, IIT Madras
PhD, ETH Zürich
Areas - Deep Learning, Systems
Researcher, Microsoft
PhD, IIT Bombay
Areas - NLP
+ many hard-working students and volunteers
What have we done so far (last 18 months)
IndicNLPSuite
Input Tools
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Samanantar
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Corpora, benchmarks, models for 11 Indic languages
Romanized keyboards for under-represented languages
Datasets and efficient models for isolated Indian Sign Language
Parallel corpus, translation models between English & 11 Indic languages
9 Billion Tokens, 10000 downloads
3 languages, 75000 words
263 signs, 4000 videos
33M parallel sentences, 12 languages
IndicTrans
AI model for translating between English and 12 Indic languages
33M parallel sentences mined from the web (3X improvement)
Impact: The translation models (which are shown to be more accurate than commercial APIs) are being used to assist human translators in translating supreme court judgements with a significant increase in efficiency
Host on CDAC machines as apart of NLTM
Follow the proven modern AI recipe
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Huge amounts of data
Deep neural networks
Lot of compute power
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Tools
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Human Annotators
What is the recipe
Methodology
Follow the proven modern AI recipe
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Huge amounts of data
Deep neural networks
Lot of compute power
+
Tools
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Human Annotators
Data
What are the different types of data?
Mined from the web
Crowd-sourced
Expert curated
(High volume, noisy)
(Moderate volume, may be noisy)
(Low volume, high quality)
Pre-Training
Training
Benchmarking
Tools
What are the different types of tools?
Input Tools
Annotation Tools
User Experience Tools
(keyboards)
(Karya)
(Anuvaad)
What are the different types of annotators
Annotators
Volunteers
Crowdsourced workers
Experts
(work for language pride and social impact)
(Part-time semi-professionals)
(Professionals)
Phase 1
Phase 3
MT
ASR
OCR
Dialog
Summarisation
QA
NLI
Paraphrase
Named Entity Recognition
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Classification
Content Filters
Phase 2
What are the tasks of interest?
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the Samanantar example
Putting it all together
1. Curate data from the web
Collect a large corpus of monolingual data in many languages (eg. IndicCorp)
Insert this into the data store with
ULCA compliance*
*data partner's role
2. Mine parallel sentences from corpora
Egress data with ULCA compliance
Engineer system to mine parallel sentences (eg. Samanantar)
Insert parallel sentences with
ULCA compliance
3. Evaluate quality of parallel dataset
Sample data from the parallel corpus data with ULCA compliance
Standardise a tool (eg. Karya) and metrics (eg. SemEval) for evaluating semantic similarity
Collect annotations from human effort
Insert data back into the data repository with ULCA compliance
4. Train AI models
Access training data with ULCA compliance
Train AI models (eg. IndicTrans)
Insert model card and API access to repository under ULCA compliance
5. Create benchmarks for MT
Sample data from the parallel corpus data with ULCA compliance
Standardise tool (eg. Karya) and rules (eg. no NMT tool to be used)
Collect benchmarks from human effort
Insert data back into the data repository with ULCA compliance
Discussion
Data
They have different characteristics
High volume, noisy
Moderate volume, may be noisy
Low volume, high quality
Data
They have different challenges
At-scale engineering, automated denoising
Best-in-class tool, quality-check
Community building, training, management
Data
They have different use-cases
Pre-training data, noisy training
Diverse training data, validate model output