Researcher Profile

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire

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PhD Scholar

Kathmandu University

rughimire@gmail.com

External Profile

Research Domain
  • Text-to-Speech Systems
  • Low-Resource Languages
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Translation
  • Data Science and Analytics

Bio

Publications

A Comprehensive Study of the Current State-of-the-Art in Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition Systems

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal | Dr. Prakash Poudyal 

Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, Prakash Poudyal (2023). A Comprehensive Study of the Current State-of-the-Art in Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition Systems. International Conference on Technologies for Computer, Electrical, Electronics & Communication (ICT-CEEL 2023), 11’th - 13’th October 2023, Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Enhancing the Quality of Nepali Text-to-Speech Systems

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal 

Ghimire, R.R., Bal, B.K. (2017). Enhancing the Quality of Nepali Text-to-Speech Systems. In: Kravets, A., Shcherbakov, M., Kultsova, M., Groumpos, P. (eds) Creativity in Intelligent Technologies and Data Science. CIT&DS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 754. Springer, Cham.

Improving on the Limitations of the ASR Model in Low-Resourced Environments Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Dr. Prakash Poudyal | Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal 

Rupak Raj Ghimire, Prakash Poudyal, and Bal Krishna Bal. 2024. Improving on the Limitations of the ASR Model in Low-Resourced Environments Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 408–415, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).

Improving Accuracy of Low-resource ASR using Rule-Based Character Constituency Loss (RBCCL)

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Dr. Prakash Poudyal | Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal 

Rupak Raj Ghimire, Prakash Poudyal, and Bal Krishna Bal. 2025. Improving Accuracy of Low-resource ASR using Rule-Based Character Constituency Loss (RBCCL). In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025), pages 61–70, Abu Dhabi, UAE. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.

Pronunciation-Aware Syllable Tokenizer for Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition System

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal | Prof.Dr. Balaram Prasain | Dr. Prakash Poudyal 

Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, Balaram Prasain, Prakash Poudyal (2023). Pronunciation-Aware Syllable Tokenizer for Nepali Automatic Speech Recognition System. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 36–43, Goa University, Goa, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).

Active Learning Approach for Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained ASR Model for a Low-Resourced Language: A Case Study of Nepali

Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal | Dr. Prakash Poudyal 

Rupak Raj Ghimire, Bal Krishna Bal, and Prakash Poudyal. 2023. Active Learning Approach for Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained ASR Model for a Low-Resourced Language: A Case Study of Nepali. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 82–89, Goa University, Goa, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).

Strategies for Corpus Development for Low-Resource Languages

Prof.Dr. Bal Krishna Bal | Prof.Dr. Balaram Prasain | Mr. Rupak Raj Ghimire | Mr. Praveen Acharya 

Bal Krishna Bal, Balaram Prasain, Rupak Raj Ghimire, Praveen Acharya (2024). Strategies for Corpus Development for Low-Resource Languages: Insights from Nepal. Book Chapter in Automatic Speech Recognition and Translation for Low Resource Languages, Editor(s): L. Ashok Kumar, D. Kathika Renuka, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Thomas Mandl, Print ISBN: 9781394213580, Online ISBN: 9781394214624, DOI: 10.1002/9781394214624, © 2024 Scrivener Publishing LLC