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Expanding the Lexicon of Ge'ez Based African Languages: A Comparative Study of Amharic and Tigrinya
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Wolfgang Nejdl
The paper introduces VEXMLM, a vocabulary‑extended version of XLM‑R that adds Ge'ez‑script subwords for Amharic and Tigrinya and shows improved performance on QA, NER, and sentimen…
A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English
The Soofi-Team, Soofi-Team, : +31
We present Soofi S 30B-A3B, a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid Mamba Transformer foundation model for German and English. Its hybrid design activates only 3B…
Tokenization Disparities as Infrastructure Bias: How Subword Systems Create Inequities in LLM Access and Efficiency
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Wolfgang Nejdl
Tokenization disparities pose a significant barrier to achieving equitable access to artificial intelligence across linguistically diverse populations. This study conducts a large-…
Low-Resource English-Tigrinya MT: Leveraging Multilingual Models, Custom Tokenizers, and Clean Evaluation Benchmarks
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Gebrearegawi Gidey, Wolfgang Nejdl
Despite advances in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), low-resource languages like Tigrinya remain underserved due to persistent challenges, including limited corpora, inadequate to…
MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Geez Script Languages
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Dren Fazlija, Wolfgang Nejdl
Subword-based tokenization methods often fail to preserve morphological boundaries, a limitation especially pronounced in low-resource, morphologically complex languages such as th…