Search Results for author: Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende

Found 8 papers, 2 papers with code

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

2 code implementations • 22 Mar 2021 • David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig, Daniel D'souza, Julia Kreutzer, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Happy Buzaaba, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Ruder, Stephen Mayhew, Israel Abebe Azime, Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Perez Ogayo, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jesujoba Alabi, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Ignatius Ezeani, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Verrah Otiende, Iroro Orife, Davis David, Samba Ngom, Tosin Adewumi, Paul Rayson, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gerald Muriuki, Emmanuel Anebi, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Nkiruka Odu, Eric Peter Wairagala, Samuel Oyerinde, Clemencia Siro, Tobius Saul Bateesa, Temilola Oloyede, Yvonne Wambui, Victor Akinode, Deborah Nabagereka, Maurice Katusiime, Ayodele Awokoya, Mouhamadane MBOUP, Dibora Gebreyohannes, Henok Tilaye, Kelechi Nwaike, Degaga Wolde, Abdoulaye Faye, Blessing Sibanda, Orevaoghene Ahia, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Kelechi Ogueji, Thierno Ibrahima DIOP, Abdoulaye Diallo, Adewale Akinfaderin, Tendai Marengereke, Salomey Osei

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.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +2

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MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2022 • David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder, Shruti Rijhwani, Michael Beukman, Chester Palen-Michel, Constantine Lignos, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Shamsuddeen H. Muhammad, Peter Nabende, Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing Sibanda, Happy Buzaaba, Jonathan Mukiibi, Godson Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Amelia Taylor, Fatoumata Kabore, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Perez Ogayo, Catherine Gitau, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Victoire M. Koagne, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Tebogo Macucwa, Vukosi Marivate, Elvis Mboning, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Tosin Adewumi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Neo L. Mokono, Ignatius Ezeani, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gilles Q. Hacheme, Idris Abdulmumin, Odunayo Ogundepo, Oreen Yousuf, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Dietrich Klakow

African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development.

Cross-Lingual Transfer named-entity-recognition +3

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Keyword Spotter Model for Crop Pest and Disease Monitoring from Community Radio Data

no code implementations • 5 Oct 2019 • Benjamin Akera, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Jonathan Mukiibi, Ali Hussein, Nathan Baleeta, Daniel Ssendiwala, Samiiha Nalwooga

In societies with well developed internet infrastructure, social media is the leading medium of communication for various social issues especially for breaking news situations.

Keyword Spotting

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Scoring Root Necrosis in Cassava Using Semantic Segmentation

no code implementations • 7 May 2020 • Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Benjamin Akera, Solomon Nsumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Ernest Mwebaze

Cassava a major food crop in many parts of Africa, has majorly been affected by Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD).

Feature Engineering Segmentation +1

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Walking Through the Method Zoo: Does Higher Education really meet Software Industry Demands?

no code implementations • 21 Jan 2021 • Marco Kuhrmann, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer, Paolo Tell, Jil Klünder, Tayana Conte, Stephen G. MacDonell, Regina Hebig

Due to the omnipresence of software in a digitalized society, higher education institutions (HEIs) have to educate the students such that they learn how to learn, and that they are equipped with a profound basic knowledge and with latest knowledge about modern software and system development.

Software Engineering

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Catching up with Method and Process Practice: An Industry-Informed Baseline for Researchers

no code implementations • 29 Jan 2021 • Jil Klünder, Regina Hebig, Paolo Tell, Marco Kuhrmann, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Rogardt Heldal, Stephan Krusche, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Michael Felderer, Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco, Steffen Küpper, Sherlock A. Licorish, Gustavo Lòpez, Fergal McCaffery, Özden Özcan Top, Christian R. Prause, Rafael Prikladnicki, Eray Tüzün, Dietmar Pfahl, Kurt Schneider, Stephen G. MacDonell

Our results show that 76. 8% of the companies implement hybrid methods.

Software Engineering

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Misinformation detection in Luganda-English code-mixed social media text

no code implementations • 31 Mar 2021 • Peter Nabende, David Kabiito, Claire Babirye, Hewitt Tusiime, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende

The increasing occurrence, forms, and negative effects of misinformation on social media platforms has necessitated more misinformation detection tools.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Classification +2

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The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus: A Luganda Radio Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Jonathan Mukiibi, Andrew Katumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Ali Hussein, Josh Meyer

Building a usable radio monitoring automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a challenging task for under-resourced languages and yet this is paramount in societies where radio is the main medium of public communication and discussions.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

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