Affiliation:
1. KIIT University, India
2. KISS University, India
3. Real Hope Secondary School, Mafinga, Tanzania
4. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Abstract
The Ho tribe is an indigenous community that primarily inhabits the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, and Chhattisgarh. The Ho language, which belongs to the Austroasiatic language of Munda family, is their primary means of communication. Warang Chiti is the script for writing Ho language. Creating user-friendly tools, applications, and resources that support Ho language users in various aspects, such as typing, spell-checking, dictionary lookup, text conversion between UNICODE and 8-bit encodings, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech translation, this chapter discusses data augmentation techniques, transfer learning methods, domain adaptation strategies, and the importance of resource creation. It also emphasizes the need for collaborative efforts and community-driven initiatives to advance NER research in low resource language settings.