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TRepLiNa: Layer-wise CKA+REPINA Alignment Improves Low-Resource Machine Translation in Aya-23 8B
Toshiki Nakai, Ravi Kiran Chikkala, Lena Sophie Oberkircher +4
The 2025 Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo) Language Challenge addresses one of India's most pressing linguistic gaps: the lack of resources for…
MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder-LLM Integration in Cross-Lingual Reasoning
Kosei Uemura, David Guzmán, Quang Phuoc Nguyen +3
Large language models excel in English but still struggle with complex reasoning in many low-resource languages (LRLs). Existing encoder-plus-decoder methods such as LangBridge and…
mSTEB: Massively Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs on Speech and Text Tasks
Luel Hagos Beyene, Vivek Verma, Min Ma +4
Large Language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide range of tasks, including in multimodal settings such as speech. However, their evaluation is often…
Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Michael A. Hedderich, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +1
With over 2,000 languages and potentially millions of speakers, Africa represents one of the richest linguistic regions in the world. Yet, this diversity is scarcely reflected in s…
INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages
Hao Yu, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Andiswa Bukula +19
Slot-filling and intent detection are well-established tasks in Conversational AI. However, current large-scale benchmarks for these tasks often exclude evaluations of low-resource…
AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Israel Abebe Azime, Miaoran Zhang +13
This paper introduces AFRIDOC-MT, a document-level multi-parallel translation dataset covering English and five African languages: Amharic, Hausa, Swahili, Yorùbá, and Zulu. The da…