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PuoBERTa: Training and evaluation of a curated language model for Setswana
Vukosi Marivate, Moseli Mots'Oehli, Valencia Wagner +2
Natural language processing (NLP) has made significant progress for well-resourced languages such as English but lagged behind for low-resource languages like Setswana. This paper…
Investigating the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Reflective Assessment Methods through Chain of Thoughts Prompting
Baphumelele Masikisiki, Vukosi Marivate, Yvette Hlope
Large Language Models, such as Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (aka. GPT-3), have been developed to understand language through the analysis of extensive text data, allowing t…
Integrating Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Subword Embedding for Authorship Attribution
Abiodun Modupe, Turgay Celik, Vukosi Marivate +1
The problem of unveiling the author of a given text document from multiple candidate authors is called authorship attribution. Manifold word-based stylistic markers have been succe…
Izindaba-Tindzaba: Machine learning news categorisation for Long and Short Text for isiZulu and Siswati
Andani Madodonga, Vukosi Marivate, Matthew Adendorff
Local/Native South African languages are classified as low-resource languages. As such, it is essential to build the resources for these languages so that they can benefit from adv…
Textual Augmentation Techniques Applied to Low Resource Machine Translation: Case of Swahili
Catherine Gitau, VUkosi Marivate
In this work we investigate the impact of applying textual data augmentation tasks to low resource machine translation. There has been recent interest in investigating approaches f…
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, David Adelani, Peter Nabende +41
In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages. We discuss the challenges in annotating POS for these…
MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda
Rendani Mbuvha, David I. Adelani, Tendani Mutavhatsindi +7
Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a vital role in various Natural Language Processing tasks such as information retrieval, text classification, and question answering. However,…
Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora
Richard Lastrucci, Isheanesu Dzingirai, Jenalea Rajab +4
This paper introduces two multilingual government themed corpora in various South African languages. The corpora were collected by gathering the South African Government newspaper…