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20192022
most citedMasakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa

24 citations · 35 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Bloom Library: Multimodal Datasets in 300+ Languages for a Variety of Downstream Tasks

Colin Leong, Joshua Nemecek, Jacob Mansdorfer +3

We present Bloom Library, a linguistically diverse set of multimodal and multilingual datasets for language modeling, image captioning, visual storytelling, and speech synthesis/re…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Dyn-ASR: Compact, Multilingual Speech Recognition via Spoken Language and Accent Identification

Sangeeta Ghangam, Daniel Whitenack, Joshua Nemecek

Running automatic speech recognition (ASR) on edge devices is non-trivial due to resource constraints, especially in scenarios that require supporting multiple languages. We propos…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

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…

cs.CL2020★ 24 cited

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…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

Katecheo: A Portable and Modular System for Multi-Topic Question Answering

Shirish Hirekodi, Seban Sunny, Leonard Topno +4

We introduce a modular system that can be deployed on any Kubernetes cluster for question answering via REST API. This system, called Katecheo, includes three configurable modules…