From Lexicon to AI: A Structured-Data Pipeline for Specialized Conversational Systems in Low-Resource Languages
A systematic methodology transforms structured linguistic resources like Hindi WordNet into 1.25 million instruction-response pairs to fine-tune a 12B-parameter language model using resource-efficient LoRA and 4-bit quantization. Evaluation via a Hindi language learning chatbot shows superior pedagogical effectiveness (91.0) compared to general-purpose models (79.4-83.6) while maintaining competitive semantic performance. This work offers a practical alternative for low-resource languages, enabling specialized AI development for hundreds of languages with existing WordNet resources.
[2606.26112] From Lexicon to AI: A Structured-Data Pipeline for Specialized Conversational Systems in Low-Resource Languages
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Title:From Lexicon to AI: A Structured-Data Pipeline for Specialized Conversational Systems in Low-Resource Languages
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Abstract:Low-resource languages face a critical challenge in AI development: creating specialized conversational systems without access to massive training corpora. We present a systematic methodology for transforming structured linguistic resources into specialized AI systems, demonstrating that expert-curated lexical databases can serve as effective foundations for conversational AI development. Our approach converts Hindi WordNet into 1.25 million diverse instruction-response pairs, fine-tunes a 12B-parameter language model using resource-efficient LoRA with 4-bit quantization. Evaluation through a Hindi language learning chatbot demonstrates that structured-knowledge-based systems achieve superior pedagogical effectiveness (91.0 vs. 79.4-83.6 for general-purpose models) while maintaining competitive semantic performance and exceptional consistency. The complete pipeline demonstrates a proof-of-concept methodology using Hindi for developing specialized AI systems for any languages with WordNet resources. This work addresses the critical gap in AI accessibility for low-resource languages, offering a practical alternative to corpus-intensive approaches and potentially enabling specialized AI development for the hundreds of languages with existing WordNet resources.
Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
ACM classes: I.2.7
Cite as: arXiv:2606.26112 [cs.CL]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.26112
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From: Siddhant Hitesh Mantri [view email] [v1] Thu, 21 May 2026 03:16:27 UTC (2,666 KB)
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