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most citedAI4D -- African Language Program

10 citations · 18 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime +24

Despite the widespread adoption of Large language models (LLMs), their remarkable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. Additionally, many low-resource lang…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42

African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan +42

Recent advances in the pre-training of language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these dat…

cs.CL2021★ 10 cited

AI4D -- African Language Program

Kathleen Siminyu, Godson Kalipe, Davor Orlic +15

Advances in speech and language technologies enable tools such as voice-search, text-to-speech, speech recognition and machine translation. These are however only available for hig…