SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages
Holy Lovenia, Rahmad Mahendra, Salsabil Maulana Akbar, Lester James V. Miranda, Jennifer Santoso, Elyanah Aco, Akhdan Fadhilah, Jonibek Mansurov, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Onno P. Kampman, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan Habibi, Frederikus Hudi, Railey Montalan, Ryan Ignatius, Joanito Agili Lopo, William Nixon, Börje F. Karlsson, James Jaya, Ryandito Diandaru, Yuze Gao, Patrick Amadeus, Bin Wang, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Chenxi Whitehouse, Ivan Halim Parmonangan, Maria Khelli, Wenyu Zhang, Lucky Susanto, Reynard Adha Ryanda, Sonny Lazuardi Hermawan, Dan John Velasco, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Willy Fitra Hendria, Yasmin Moslem, Noah Flynn, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Haochen Li, Johanes Lee, R. Damanhuri, Shuo Sun, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Amirbek Djanibekov, Wei Qi Leong, Quyet V. Do, Niklas Muennighoff, Tanrada Pansuwan, Ilham Firdausi Putra, Yan Xu, Tai Ngee Chia, Ayu Purwarianti, Sebastian Ruder, William Tjhi, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Alham Fikri Aji, Sedrick Keh, Genta Indra Winata, Ruochen Zhang, Fajri Koto, Zheng-Xin Yong, Samuel Cahyawijaya
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Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region rich in linguistic diversity and cultural variety, with over 1,300 indigenous languages and a population of 671 million people. However, prevailing AI models suffer from a significant lack of representation of texts, images, and audio datasets from SEA, compromising the quality of AI models for SEA languages. Evaluating models for SEA languages is challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality datasets, compounded by the dominance of English training data, raising concerns about potential cultural misrepresentation. To address these challenges, through a collaborative movement, we introduce SEACrowd, a comprehensive resource center that fills the resource gap by providing standardized corpora in nearly 1,000 SEA languages across three modalities. Through our SEACrowd benchmarks, we assess the quality of AI models on 36 indigenous languages across 13 tasks, offering valuable insights into the current AI landscape in SEA. Furthermore, we propose strategies to facilitate greater AI advancements, maximizing potential utility and resource equity for the future of AI in Southeast Asia.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.emnlp-main.296
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- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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- November
- Year:
- 2024
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- Miami, Florida, USA
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- Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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- EMNLP
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- Association for Computational Linguistics
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- 5155–5203
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- https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.296/
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- 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.296
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- Holy Lovenia, Rahmad Mahendra, Salsabil Maulana Akbar, Lester James V. Miranda, Jennifer Santoso, Elyanah Aco, Akhdan Fadhilah, Jonibek Mansurov, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Onno P. Kampman, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan Habibi, Frederikus Hudi, Railey Montalan, Ryan Ignatius, Joanito Agili Lopo, William Nixon, Börje F. Karlsson, James Jaya, Ryandito Diandaru, Yuze Gao, Patrick Amadeus, Bin Wang, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Chenxi Whitehouse, Ivan Halim Parmonangan, Maria Khelli, Wenyu Zhang, Lucky Susanto, Reynard Adha Ryanda, Sonny Lazuardi Hermawan, Dan John Velasco, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Willy Fitra Hendria, Yasmin Moslem, Noah Flynn, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Haochen Li, Johanes Lee, R. Damanhuri, Shuo Sun, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Amirbek Djanibekov, Wei Qi Leong, Quyet V. Do, Niklas Muennighoff, Tanrada Pansuwan, Ilham Firdausi Putra, Yan Xu, Tai Ngee Chia, Ayu Purwarianti, Sebastian Ruder, William Tjhi, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Alham Fikri Aji, Sedrick Keh, Genta Indra Winata, Ruochen Zhang, Fajri Koto, Zheng-Xin Yong, and Samuel Cahyawijaya. 2024. SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5155–5203, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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@inproceedings{lovenia-etal-2024-seacrowd,
title = "{SEAC}rowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for {S}outheast {A}sian Languages",
author = {Lovenia, Holy and
Mahendra, Rahmad and
Akbar, Salsabil Maulana and
Miranda, Lester James V. and
Santoso, Jennifer and
Aco, Elyanah and
Fadhilah, Akhdan and
Mansurov, Jonibek and
Imperial, Joseph Marvin and
Kampman, Onno P. and
Moniz, Joel Ruben Antony and
Habibi, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan and
Hudi, Frederikus and
Montalan, Railey and
Ignatius, Ryan and
Lopo, Joanito Agili and
Nixon, William and
Karlsson, B{\"o}rje F. and
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Diandaru, Ryandito and
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Wang, Bin and
Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise and
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Parmonangan, Ivan Halim and
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Zhang, Wenyu and
Susanto, Lucky and
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Hermawan, Sonny Lazuardi and
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Kautsar, Muhammad Dehan Al and
Hendria, Willy Fitra and
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Tjhi, William and
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Aji, Alham Fikri and
Keh, Sedrick and
Winata, Genta Indra and
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Koto, Fajri and
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editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
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abstract = "Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region rich in linguistic diversity and cultural variety, with over 1,300 indigenous languages and a population of 671 million people. However, prevailing AI models suffer from a significant lack of representation of texts, images, and audio datasets from SEA, compromising the quality of AI models for SEA languages. Evaluating models for SEA languages is challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality datasets, compounded by the dominance of English training data, raising concerns about potential cultural misrepresentation. To address these challenges, through a collaborative movement, we introduce SEACrowd, a comprehensive resource center that fills the resource gap by providing standardized corpora in nearly 1,000 SEA languages across three modalities. Through our SEACrowd benchmarks, we assess the quality of AI models on 36 indigenous languages across 13 tasks, offering valuable insights into the current AI landscape in SEA. Furthermore, we propose strategies to facilitate greater AI advancements, maximizing potential utility and resource equity for the future of AI in Southeast Asia."
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%0 Conference Proceedings %T SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages %A Lovenia, Holy %A Mahendra, Rahmad %A Akbar, Salsabil Maulana %A Miranda, Lester James V. %A Santoso, Jennifer %A Aco, Elyanah %A Fadhilah, Akhdan %A Mansurov, Jonibek %A Imperial, Joseph Marvin %A Kampman, Onno P. %A Moniz, Joel Ruben Antony %A Habibi, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan %A Hudi, Frederikus %A Montalan, Railey %A Ignatius, Ryan %A Lopo, Joanito Agili %A Nixon, William %A Karlsson, Börje F. %A Jaya, James %A Diandaru, Ryandito %A Gao, Yuze %A Amadeus, Patrick %A Wang, Bin %A Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise %A Whitehouse, Chenxi %A Parmonangan, Ivan Halim %A Khelli, Maria %A Zhang, Wenyu %A Susanto, Lucky %A Ryanda, Reynard Adha %A Hermawan, Sonny Lazuardi %A Velasco, Dan John %A Kautsar, Muhammad Dehan Al %A Hendria, Willy Fitra %A Moslem, Yasmin %A Flynn, Noah %A Adilazuarda, Muhammad Farid %A Li, Haochen %A Lee, Johanes %A Damanhuri, R. %A Sun, Shuo %A Qorib, Muhammad Reza %A Djanibekov, Amirbek %A Leong, Wei Qi %A Do, Quyet V. %A Muennighoff, Niklas %A Pansuwan, Tanrada %A Putra, Ilham Firdausi %A Xu, Yan %A Chia, Tai Ngee %A Purwarianti, Ayu %A Ruder, Sebastian %A Tjhi, William %A Limkonchotiwat, Peerat %A Aji, Alham Fikri %A Keh, Sedrick %A Winata, Genta Indra %A Zhang, Ruochen %A Koto, Fajri %A Yong, Zheng-Xin %A Cahyawijaya, Samuel %Y Al-Onaizan, Yaser %Y Bansal, Mohit %Y Chen, Yun-Nung %S Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing %D 2024 %8 November %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Miami, Florida, USA %F lovenia-etal-2024-seacrowd %X Southeast Asia (SEA) is a region rich in linguistic diversity and cultural variety, with over 1,300 indigenous languages and a population of 671 million people. However, prevailing AI models suffer from a significant lack of representation of texts, images, and audio datasets from SEA, compromising the quality of AI models for SEA languages. Evaluating models for SEA languages is challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality datasets, compounded by the dominance of English training data, raising concerns about potential cultural misrepresentation. To address these challenges, through a collaborative movement, we introduce SEACrowd, a comprehensive resource center that fills the resource gap by providing standardized corpora in nearly 1,000 SEA languages across three modalities. Through our SEACrowd benchmarks, we assess the quality of AI models on 36 indigenous languages across 13 tasks, offering valuable insights into the current AI landscape in SEA. Furthermore, we propose strategies to facilitate greater AI advancements, maximizing potential utility and resource equity for the future of AI in Southeast Asia. %R 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.296 %U https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.296/ %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.296 %P 5155-5203
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[SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.296/) (Lovenia et al., EMNLP 2024)
- SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages (Lovenia et al., EMNLP 2024)
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- Holy Lovenia, Rahmad Mahendra, Salsabil Maulana Akbar, Lester James V. Miranda, Jennifer Santoso, Elyanah Aco, Akhdan Fadhilah, Jonibek Mansurov, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Onno P. Kampman, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Muhammad Ravi Shulthan Habibi, Frederikus Hudi, Railey Montalan, Ryan Ignatius, Joanito Agili Lopo, William Nixon, Börje F. Karlsson, James Jaya, Ryandito Diandaru, Yuze Gao, Patrick Amadeus, Bin Wang, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Chenxi Whitehouse, Ivan Halim Parmonangan, Maria Khelli, Wenyu Zhang, Lucky Susanto, Reynard Adha Ryanda, Sonny Lazuardi Hermawan, Dan John Velasco, Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Willy Fitra Hendria, Yasmin Moslem, Noah Flynn, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda, Haochen Li, Johanes Lee, R. Damanhuri, Shuo Sun, Muhammad Reza Qorib, Amirbek Djanibekov, Wei Qi Leong, Quyet V. Do, Niklas Muennighoff, Tanrada Pansuwan, Ilham Firdausi Putra, Yan Xu, Tai Ngee Chia, Ayu Purwarianti, Sebastian Ruder, William Tjhi, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Alham Fikri Aji, Sedrick Keh, Genta Indra Winata, Ruochen Zhang, Fajri Koto, Zheng-Xin Yong, and Samuel Cahyawijaya. 2024. SEACrowd: A Multilingual Multimodal Data Hub and Benchmark Suite for Southeast Asian Languages. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5155–5203, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.