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Research Project: Norwegian + Urdu AI Assistant (Beginner to Research)

Build a multilingual AI assistant for Norwegian and Urdu with sentiment, translation, classification, and chatbot capabilities using Hugging Face.

Asma HafeezMay 6, 20261 min read
Multilingual NLPHugging FaceUrdu NLPNorwegian NLPTransformersResearch Project
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Norwegian + Urdu AI Assistant Project

This is your flagship research-style project. Start simple and iterate.

Phase 1: Baseline Features

  • sentiment analysis
  • translation pipeline
  • text classification
  • simple multilingual chatbot

Hugging Face Starter

Python
from transformers import pipeline

sentiment = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")
translator = pipeline("translation", model="Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-ur")

print(sentiment("I am happy with this service"))
print(translator("Welcome to Norway"))

Phase 2: Domain Adaptation

  • curate Norway/immigrant-support data samples
  • add Roman Urdu handling
  • evaluate language-specific errors

Phase 3: Research-Style Evaluation

Track:

  • per-language accuracy/F1
  • translation quality samples
  • hallucination/error categories
  • fairness across user groups

Deliverables

  1. GitHub repo with notebook + script pipeline
  2. Evaluation report (tables + qualitative examples)
  3. Short demo video or README walkthrough

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