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The Effect of Domain and Diacritics in Yoruba–English Neural Machine Translation
Massively multilingual machine translation (MT) has shown impressive capabilities and including zero and few-shot translation between low-resource language pairs.
UdS-DFKI@WMT20: Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT for German-Upper Sorbian
This paper describes the UdS-DFKI submission to the shared task for unsupervised machine translation (MT) and very low-resource supervised MT between German (de) and Upper Sorbian (hsb) at the Fifth Conference of Machine Translation (WMT20).
On the N-gram Approximation of Pre-trained Language Models
This study investigates the potential usage of PLMs for language modelling in ASR.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
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MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages.
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
Furthermore, we explore several alternatives to full fine-tuning of language models that are better suited for zero-shot and few-shot learning such as cross-lingual parameter-efficient fine-tuning (like MAD-X), pattern exploiting training (PET), prompting language models (like ChatGPT), and prompt-free sentence transformer fine-tuning (SetFit and Cohere Embedding API).
Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages
For task B, we fine-tuned multilingual pre-trained language models that support many of the languages in the task.
$\varepsilon$ KÚ <MASK>: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation
This paper investigates the performance of massively multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) systems in translating Yor\`ub\'a greetings ($\varepsilon$ k\'u [MASK]), which are a big part of Yor\`ub\'a language and culture, into English.
Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction
Machine Translation
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BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models
BIG-bench focuses on tasks that are believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models.
EdinSaar@WMT21: North-Germanic Low-Resource Multilingual NMT
We describe the EdinSaar submission to the shared task of Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for North Germanic Languages at the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT2021).
UNIQORN: Unified Question Answering over RDF Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Text
Some of these systems incorporate textual sources as additional evidence for the answering process, but cannot compute answers that are present in text alone.
Ranked #5 on
Question Answering
on TIQ
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages, bringing together a variety of stakeholders.
Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages
Multilingual transformer models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa have obtained great improvements for many NLP tasks on a variety of languages.
Massive vs. Curated Embeddings for Low-Resourced Languages: the Case of Yor\`ub\'a and Twi
In this paper we focus on two African languages, Yor{\`u}b{\'a} and Twi, and compare the word embeddings obtained in this way, with word embeddings obtained from curated corpora and a language-dependent processing.
