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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…
SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam +7
We present the first Africentric SemEval Shared task, Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) - The dataset is available at https://github.com/afrisenti-semeva…
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…
MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda
Rendani Mbuvha, David I. Adelani, Tendani Mutavhatsindi +7
Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a vital role in various Natural Language Processing tasks such as information retrieval, text classification, and question answering. However,…
The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset
Hugo Laurençon, Lucile Saulnier, Thomas Wang +51
As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has never been more pressing, especially in multilingual settings. The BigScience workshop,…
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
Josh Meyer, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Edresson Casanova +16
BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single sp…