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Machine Intelligence in Africa: a survey
Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Ali Traore, Sidy Danioko +1
In the last 5 years, the availability of large audio datasets in African countries has opened unlimited opportunities to build machine intelligence (MI) technologies that are close…
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…
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…
A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan +42
Recent advances in the pre-training of language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these dat…
Domain-specific MT for Low-resource Languages: The case of Bambara-French
Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Michael Leventhal, Sarah Luger +2
Translating to and from low-resource languages is a challenge for machine translation (MT) systems due to a lack of parallel data. In this paper we address the issue of domain-spec…
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets
Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang +49
With the success of large-scale pre-training and multilingual modeling in Natural Language Processing (NLP), recent years have seen a proliferation of large, web-mined text dataset…