Cognate and Contact-Induced Transfer Learning for Hamshentsnag: A Low-Resource and Endangered Language

Published in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC @ NAACL 2025), 2025

We develop NLP resources for Hamshentsnag, a critically endangered Armenian dialect, using cognate-based and contact-induced transfer learning strategies.

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Recommended citation: Keleş, O., Günay, B., & Doğan, B. (2025, May). Cognate and contact-induced transfer learning for Hamshentsnag: A low-resource and endangered language. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC 2025) (pp. 76–85).