Paper
DATASHI: A Parallel English-Tashlhiyt Corpus for Orthography Normalization and Low-Resource Language Processing
Authors
Nasser-Eddine Monir, Zakaria Baou
Abstract
DATASHI is a new parallel English-Tashlhiyt corpus that fills a critical gap in computational resources for Amazigh languages. It contains 5,000 sentence pairs, including a 1,500-sentence subset with expert-standardized and non-standard user-generated versions, enabling systematic study of orthographic diversity and normalization. This dual design supports text-based NLP tasks - such as tokenization, translation, and normalization - and also serves as a foundation for read-speech data collection and multimodal alignment. Comprehensive evaluations with state-of-the-art Large Language Models (GPT-5, Claude-Sonnet-4.5, Gemini-2.5-Pro, Mistral, Qwen3-Max) show clear improvements from zero-shot to few-shot prompting, with Gemini-2.5-Pro achieving the lowest word and character-level error rates and exhibiting robust cross-lingual generalization. A fine-grained analysis of edit operations - deletions, substitutions, and insertions - across phonological classes (geminates, emphatics, uvulars, and pharyngeals) further highlights model-specific sensitivities to marked Tashlhiyt features and provides new diagnostic insights for low-resource Amazigh orthography normalization.
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