Armenian Language Technology Initiative
We promote the digital vitality and technological equality of the Armenian language through cutting-edge research and development in Language Technology and the Digital Humanities.
🎯 Mission
Our mission is to strengthen the presence of the Armenian language in the digital ecosystem. By developing open-access tools, high-quality datasets, and robust machine learning models, we empower researchers, developers, and creators to build impactful, real-world applications.
🔬 Focus Areas
- Armenian NLP & LLMs: Pre-training and fine-tuning state-of-the-art language models for Eastern and Western Armenian.
- Low-Resource OCR & Document Understanding: Developing advanced Vision-Language pipelines and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for historical archives and modern texts.
- Language Resources: Curation of clean, representative text, speech, and multi-modal datasets.
- Digital Humanities: Applying computational linguistics to literature, history, and long-term cultural preservation.
- Open Source Ecosystems: Democratizing AI by publishing reproducible code, models, and interactive Hugging Face Spaces.
🚀 Activities
- Dataset Curation: Designing, annotating, and sharing open-source text, speech, and multimodal corpora to expand foundational resource availability.
- Model Training: Developing state-of-the-art language models tailored to the unique linguistic features and varieties of Armenian.
- Benchmarking & Evaluation: Developing standardized evaluation datasets, metrics, and public leaderboards to systematically track Armenian language technologies.
- Academic Support: Partnering with research labs and cultural institutions to accelerate open science in computational linguistics.
🤝 Collaboration
We actively welcome collaboration with researchers, developers, data scientists, and cultural institutions. Whether you want to contribute to our datasets, evaluate our models, or integrate Armenian support into your applications, we invite you to join our community.
📈 Goals
- Enhance Accessibility: Improve the digital representation of the Armenian language across global AI systems.
- Accelerate Innovation: Support both academic research and commercial applications with production-ready tools.
- Build Open Infrastructure: Establish a definitive, open-source repository of reusable AI resources for the global community.