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20202024
most citedAssessing Human Translations from French to Bambara for Machine Learning: a Pilot Study

6 citations · 11 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2024

Rater Cohesion and Quality from a Vicarious Perspective

Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta +5

Human feedback is essential for building human-centered AI systems across domains where disagreement is prevalent, such as AI safety, content moderation, or sentiment analysis. Man…

cs.IR2023

Subjective Crowd Disagreements for Subjective Data: Uncovering Meaningful CrowdOpinion with Population-level Learning

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sarah Luger, Saloni Poddar +2

Human-annotated data plays a critical role in the fairness of AI systems, including those that deal with life-altering decisions or moderating human-created web/social media conten…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

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…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Neural Machine Translation for Extremely Low-Resource African Languages: A Case Study on Bambara

Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Bakary Coulibaly, Sébastien Diarra +6

Low-resource languages present unique challenges to (neural) machine translation. We discuss the case of Bambara, a Mande language for which training data is scarce and requires si…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Assessing Human Translations from French to Bambara for Machine Learning: a Pilot Study

Michael Leventhal, Allahsera Tapo, Sarah Luger +2

We present novel methods for assessing the quality of human-translated aligned texts for learning machine translation models of under-resourced languages. Malian university student…