MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages

1 code implementation • 23 May 2023 • Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, David Adelani, Peter Nabende, Jesujoba Alabi, Thapelo Sindane, Happy Buzaaba, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Perez Ogayo, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jonathan Mukiibi, Blessing Sibanda, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Victoire Memdjokam Koagne, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Amelia Taylor, Godson Kalipe, Tebogo Macucwa, Vukosi Marivate, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Mboning Tchiaze Elvis, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Gratien Atindogbe, Tolulope Adelani, Idris Akinade, Olanrewaju Samuel, Marien Nahimana, Théogène Musabeyezu, Emile Niyomutabazi, Ester Chimhenga, Kudzai Gotosa, Patrick Mizha, Apelete Agbolo, Seydou Traore, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Aliyu Yusuf, Muhammad Abdullahi, Dietrich Klakow

In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages.

Cross-Lingual Transfer parameter-efficient fine-tuning +3

Developing Smart Web-Search Using RegEx

no code implementations • 10 Oct 2021 • Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Stanley Ogbonna, Ebele Onyedimma, Onyedikachukwu Ikechukwu-Onyenwe, Chidinma Nwafor

The idea is to embed regEx patterns as part of the search engine's algorithm in a web application project to provide strings related to the targeted items for more comprehensive coverage of search results.

Developing Products Update-Alert System for e-Commerce Websites Users Using HTML Data and Web Scraping Technique

no code implementations • 2 Sep 2021 • Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Ebele Onyedinma, Chidinma Nwafor, Obinna Agbata

This also requires that the users will have to spend a lot of time and effort to search for the best product deals, products updates and offers on e-commerce websites.

The impact of political party/candidate on the election results from a sentiment analysis perspective using #AnambraDecides2017 tweets

no code implementations • 7 Jul 2020 • Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Samuel Nwagbo, Njideka Mbeledogu, Ebele Onyedinma

This work investigates empirically the impact of political party control over its candidates or vice versa on winning an election using a natural language processing technique called sentiment analysis (SA).

Sentiment Analysis

Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark

no code implementations • 1 Apr 2020 • Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Mark Hepple

Although researchers and practitioners are pushing the boundaries and enhancing the capacities of NLP tools and methods, works on African languages are lagging.

Machine Translation Part-Of-Speech Tagging +1

Transferred Embeddings for Igbo Similarity, Analogy, and Diacritic Restoration Tasks

no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Ignatius Ezeani, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Mark Hepple

Most minority languages face the challenge of lack of resources - data and technologies - for NLP research.

Transfer Learning Word Embeddings +1

Igbo Diacritic Restoration using Embedding Models

no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Enemouh Chioma

In this work, we applied embedding models to the diacritic restoration task and compared their performances to those of n-gram models.

Machine Translation Word Embeddings

Lexical Disambiguation of Igbo using Diacritic Restoration

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu Onyenwe

However, as a classification task, diacritic restoration is well suited for and will be more generalisable with machine learning.

BIG-bench Machine Learning General Classification

Use of Transformation-Based Learning in Annotation Pipeline of Igbo, an African Language

no code implementations • WS 2015 • Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Ignatius Ezeani

Part-of-speech Tagset and Corpus Development for Igbo, an African Language

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Mark Hepple

Part-Of-Speech Tagging