Speech Technology · NLP · Low-Resource Languages

Natt Korat

Lecturer-Researcher at CADT developing AI systems for Khmer speech recognition, multilingual NLP, and low-resource language technologies.

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About Me

Natt Korat
Natt Korat
Lecturer-Researcher · Speech Technology Unit · CADT, Cambodia

I am a Lecturer-Researcher at the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), where I work on speech and language technologies for low-resource languages. My research centres on Khmer automatic speech recognition, speech data processing, and multilingual natural language processing.

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Education
M.S. in Computer Science
Completed January 2026
B.S. in Computer Science
AGA Institute
2023
B.A. in Psychology
Royal University of Phnom Penh
2022
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Publications
4
Projects
3
Degrees
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Focus Language
Research Interests
🎙️ Speech Recognition (ASR) 🔬 Self-Supervised Learning ⚡ Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning 🌏 Low-Resource Languages 🇰🇭 Khmer NLP 📰 Information Extraction 🏥 AI for Public Health 🔉 Speech Data Processing 🤗 Transformer Models 🌐 Multilingual NLP

Research Output

Publications

Journal 2025
Khmer News Classification in Low-Resource Settings: A Comparative Analysis of Embedding Methods
Korat, N., Heang, S., & Lay, V.
Journal on Information Technologies & Communications
DOI
Conference 2025
Epidemic Event Extraction from News Media Using Large Language Models
Korat, N., Kak, S., Lay, V., Uraiwan, B., & Waranrach, V.
International Conference on Digital Economy and Fintech Innovation (DEFI 2025)
DIO
Conference 2025
Building a Khmer NER Benchmark from Health News Data Towards Event Extraction
Chiep, C., Korat, N., Lay, V., & Ly, R.
ASEAN Conference on Emerging Technology (ACET 2025)
HAL
Poster 2025
Toward Multilingual Epidemic Event Extraction for Low-Resource Languages
Korat, N., Waranrach, V., & Kak, S.
UEC International Seminar Poster Session
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Workshop 2024
Robust and Efficient Recognition of Khmer License Plates Using YOLOv5 and Parseq OCR
Kong, P., Korat, N., & Veng, P.
CV4DC Workshop, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2024)
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Work in Progress

Featured Projects

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Khmer Speech Technology
End-to-end Khmer ASR systems built on XLS-R 300M with CTC decoding, speaker diarization (pyannote), and INT8 quantization via ONNX Runtime for low-latency clinical transcription.
Wav2Vec2 / XLS-R CTC Diarization ONNX
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Speech Dataset Pipeline
Automated pipeline for collecting and processing Khmer speech data from broadcast media and YouTube, with text normalization, forced alignment, and PyCTCDecode + KenLM beam-search decoding.
Data Collection KenLM Forced Alignment
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Event Extraction System
AI pipeline that extracts epidemic-related events from multilingual news and social media via transformer models and LLMs, generating structured public health intelligence from unstructured text.
NER LLM Multilingual Event Extraction

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I'm open to research collaborations, academic discussions on speech technology and low-resource NLP. Feel free to reach out through any of the channels below.

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