Search Results for author: Valencia Wagner

Found 3 papers, 3 papers with code

PuoBERTa: Training and evaluation of a curated language model for Setswana

2 code implementations • 13 Oct 2023 • Vukosi Marivate, Moseli Mots'oehli, Valencia Wagner, Richard Lastrucci, Isheanesu Dzingirai

Natural language processing (NLP) has made significant progress for well-resourced languages such as English but lagged behind for low-resource languages like Setswana.

Language Modelling named-entity-recognition +5

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A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan, Julia Kreutzer, Xiaoyu Shen, Machel Reid, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow, Peter Nabende, Ernie Chang, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Freshia Sackey, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Colin Leong, Michael Beukman, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Guyo Dub Jarso, Oreen Yousuf, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Gilles Hacheme, Eric Peter Wairagala, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Yvonne Wambui Gitau, Jade Abbott, Mohamed Ahmed, Millicent Ochieng, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Perez Ogayo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Victoire Memdjokam Koagne, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Valencia Wagner, Idris Abdulmumin, Ayodele Awokoya, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Sibanda, Andiswa Bukula, Sam Manthalu

We focus on two questions: 1) How can pre-trained models be used for languages not included in the initial pre-training?

Translation

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Training Cross-Lingual embeddings for Setswana and Sepedi

1 code implementation • 11 Nov 2021 • Mack Makgatho, Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara, Valencia Wagner

This paper trains Setswana and Sepedi monolingual word vectors and uses VecMap to create cross-lingual embeddings for Setswana-Sepedi in order to do a cross-lingual transfer.

Cross-Lingual Transfer Semantic Similarity +2

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