Online Social Networks (OSNs) have revolutionized communication but also brought challenges like hate speech, cyberbullying, and offensive content. While Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps detect such abuse, most research focuses on high-resource languages like English, leaving low-resource languages like Pashto, spoken…
Pashto, a low-resource language spoken by millions, presents unique challenges in NLP, particularly in word segmentation. Unlike English, where whitespace reliably marks word boundaries, Pashto uses whitespace inconsistently, leading to frequent spelling errors like space-omission and space-insertion. These issues complicate…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has revolutionized communication and technology, but many low-resource languages, like Pashto, remain underserved. Pashto, spoken by over 50 million people, lacks essential NLP tools and resources. Addressing this gap, researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University have…
