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Teaching LLMs to Abstain across Languages via Multilingual Feedback
Shangbin Feng, Weijia Shi, Yike Wang +6
Multilingual LLMs often have knowledge disparities across languages, with larger gaps in under-resourced languages. Teaching LLMs to abstain in the face of knowledge gaps is thus a…
Extracting Lexical Features from Dialects via Interpretable Dialect Classifiers
Roy Xie, Orevaoghene Ahia, Yulia Tsvetkov +1
Identifying linguistic differences between dialects of a language often requires expert knowledge and meticulous human analysis. This is largely due to the complexity and nuance in…
DIALECTBENCH: A NLP Benchmark for Dialects, Varieties, and Closely-Related Languages
Fahim Faisal, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aarohi Srivastava +4
Language technologies should be judged on their usefulness in real-world use cases. An often overlooked aspect in natural language processing (NLP) research and evaluation is langu…
MYTE: Morphology-Driven Byte Encoding for Better and Fairer Multilingual Language Modeling
Tomasz Limisiewicz, Terra Blevins, Hila Gonen +2
A major consideration in multilingual language modeling is how to best represent languages with diverse vocabularies and scripts. Although contemporary text encoding methods cover…
Do All Languages Cost the Same? Tokenization in the Era of Commercial Language Models
Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar, Hila Gonen +4
Language models have graduated from being research prototypes to commercialized products offered as web APIs, and recent works have highlighted the multilingual capabilities of the…
AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera +49
African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingu…
Intriguing Properties of Compression on Multilingual Models
Kelechi Ogueji, Orevaoghene Ahia, Gbemileke Onilude +3
Multilingual models are often particularly dependent on scaling to generalize to a growing number of languages. Compression techniques are widely relied upon to reconcile the growt…
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…
What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs
Heather Lent, Kelechi Ogueji, Miryam de Lhoneux +2
In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has given increased attention to the disparity of efforts directed towards high-resource languages over low-resourc…
The Low-Resource Double Bind: An Empirical Study of Pruning for Low-Resource Machine Translation
Orevaoghene Ahia, Julia Kreutzer, Sara Hooker
A "bigger is better" explosion in the number of parameters in deep neural networks has made it increasingly challenging to make state-of-the-art networks accessible in compute-rest…
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig +58
We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named en…
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila +45
Research in NLP lacks geographic diversity, and the question of how NLP can be scaled to low-resourced languages has not yet been adequately solved. "Low-resourced"-ness is a compl…
Towards Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Baselines for Nigerian Pidgin
Orevaoghene Ahia, Kelechi Ogueji
Nigerian Pidgin is arguably the most widely spoken language in Nigeria. Variants of this language are also spoken across West and Central Africa, making it a very important languag…
Masakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa
Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing Sibanda +22
Africa has over 2000 languages. Despite this, African languages account for a small portion of available resources and publications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This is du…
PidginUNMT: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin to English
Kelechi Ogueji, Orevaoghene Ahia
Over 800 languages are spoken across West Africa. Despite the obvious diversity among people who speak these languages, one language significantly unifies them all - West African P…