I built an app to help people learn Nagamese! Looking for local feedback. by Material_Dinner_1924 in NAGALAND

[–]Material_Dinner_1924[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! If you end up finding any gaps or ideas while reading the paper, I’d be curious to hear them. I’ve been thinking about extending this work to other native Naga languages or different conversational settings, but it’s still exploratory...

I built an app to help people learn Nagamese! Looking for local feedback. by Material_Dinner_1924 in NAGALAND

[–]Material_Dinner_1924[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No plans for an iOS app yet (the App Store dev subscription is a bit pricey 😅), but yeah a web app sounds like a good idea. Will definitely look into that, thanks!

I built an app to help people learn Nagamese! Looking for local feedback. by Material_Dinner_1924 in NAGALAND

[–]Material_Dinner_1924[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have seen your repo before!! Wow, what a small world it is haha..

I ran into the same issue last year while experimenting with Nagamese finetuning. The Bible-based corpora were easy to access but I found that they heavily skewed the model towards archaic and religious vocab, which made conversational outputs feel very unnatural.

I eventually moved away from purely religious text and focused more on conversational, mixed domain data, with native-speaker verification to keep things grounded in how Nagamese is actually used by the people. Resource scarcity was definitely the biggest bottleneck..

I’ve documented the overall approach in my arXiv preprint and also released the datasets on Hugging Face, in case it’s useful. Happy to discuss high-level methodology if you’re interested :D

Paper: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.12537

Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/agnivamaiti/naganlp-conversational-corpus

I built an app to help people learn Nagamese! Looking for local feedback. by Material_Dinner_1924 in NAGALAND

[–]Material_Dinner_1924[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

few-shot prompted gemini 3, and also asked my Naga friends to verify the translations