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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…
Towards Best Practices for Training Multilingual Dense Retrieval Models
Xinyu Zhang, Kelechi Ogueji, Xueguang Ma +1
Dense retrieval models using a transformer-based bi-encoder design have emerged as an active area of research. In this work, we focus on the task of monolingual retrieval in a vari…
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…