3 papers
cs.CL2021
NaijaNER : Comprehensive Named Entity Recognition for 5 Nigerian Languages
Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ifeoma Okoh +5
Most of the common applications of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is on English and other highly available languages. In this work, we present our findings on Named Entity Recognit…
cs.CL2020
Semantic Enrichment of Nigerian Pidgin English for Contextual Sentiment Classification
Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Olalekan Akinsande
Nigerian English adaptation, Pidgin, has evolved over the years through multi-language code switching, code mixing and linguistic adaptation. While Pidgin preserves many of the wor…
cs.CL2020
Improving Yorùbá Diacritic Restoration
Iroro Orife, David I. Adelani, Timi Fasubaa +4
Yorùbá is a widely spoken West African language with a writing system rich in orthographic and tonal diacritics. They provide morphological information, are crucial for lexical dis…