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SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Hannah Liu, Xiaoyu Shen +5
Despite the progress we have recorded in the last few years in multilingual natural language processing, evaluation is typically limited to a small set of languages with available…
NaijaRC: A Multi-choice Reading Comprehension Dataset for Nigerian Languages
Anuoluwapo Aremu, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Daud Abolade +3
In this paper, we create NaijaRC: a new multi-choice Reading Comprehension dataset for three native Nigeria languages that is based on high-school reading comprehension examination…
On the N-gram Approximation of Pre-trained Language Models
Aravind Krishnan, Jesujoba Alabi, Dietrich Klakow
Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown remarkable performance across various natural language understanding (NLU) tasks, particularly in low-resource settings. Neverth…
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, David Adelani, Peter Nabende +41
In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages. We discuss the challenges in annotating POS for these…
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…
KÚ <MASK>: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation
Idris Akinade, Jesujoba Alabi, David Adelani +2
This paper investigates the performance of massively multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) systems in translating Yorùbá greetings ( kú [MASK]), which are a bi…
Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages
Israel Abebe Azime, Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja +8
AfriSenti-SemEval Shared Task 12 of SemEval-2023. The task aims to perform monolingual sentiment classification (sub-task A) for 12 African languages, multilingual sentiment classi…
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime +62
African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets covering several NLP tasks. While there are individual language specific datasets that are…