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MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42
African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…
Conversational Pattern Mining using Motif Detection
Nicolle Garber, Vukosi Marivate
The subject of conversational mining has become of great interest recently due to the explosion of social and other online media. Supplementing this explosion of text is the advanc…
Semi-supervised learning approaches for predicting South African political sentiment for local government elections
Mashadi Ledwaba, Vukosi Marivate
This study aims to understand the South African political context by analysing the sentiments shared on Twitter during the local government elections. An emphasis on the analysis w…
Is it Fake? News Disinformation Detection on South African News Websites
Harm de Wet, Vukosi Marivate
Disinformation through fake news is an ongoing problem in our society and has become easily spread through social media. The most cost and time effective way to filter these large…
Towards Financial Sentiment Analysis in a South African Landscape
Michelle Terblanche, Vukosi Marivate
Sentiment analysis as a sub-field of natural language processing has received increased attention in the past decade enabling organisations to more effectively manage their reputat…
AI4D -- African Language Program
Kathleen Siminyu, Godson Kalipe, Davor Orlic +15
Advances in speech and language technologies enable tools such as voice-search, text-to-speech, speech recognition and machine translation. These are however only available for hig…