Neural machine translation systems for English to Khasi: A case study of an Austroasiatic language

Aiusha Vellintihun Hujon, Thoudam Doren Singh, Khwairakpam Amitab

Abstract: Highlights•A sizable parallel corpus is built for English–Khasi.•An empirical study was performed with LSTM, GRU, and Transformer on the datasets.•A transfer learning method is adapted using English-Vietnamese with improved results.•Quantitative and qualitative analysis on the output of the models are also carried out.•Gender based morphological inflection in the output of the models are analyzed.