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A Parametric, Geometry-Aware Residential Construction Cost Estimation Model for Ghana: Design, Validation, and the "Completeness Gap" in Informal Contractor Quotes
Emmanuel Apaaboah, Bernard Opoku, the GhanaHousePlanner Research Team
Ghana faces a residential housing deficit of two million units. A key driver of project failure is the "completeness gap", a systematic discrepancy between informal contractor quot…
AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages
Jiayi Wang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sweta Agrawal +55
Despite the recent progress on scaling multilingual machine translation (MT) to several under-resourced African languages, accurately measuring this progress remains challenging, s…
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…
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele +23
Africa is home to over 2,000 languages from more than six language families and has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. These include 75 languages with at least…
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…
English-Twi Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation
Paul Azunre, Salomey Osei, Salomey Addo +24
We present a parallel machine translation training corpus for English and Akuapem Twi of 25,421 sentence pairs. We used a transformer-based translator to generate initial translati…
NLP for Ghanaian Languages
Paul Azunre, Salomey Osei, Salomey Addo +24
NLP Ghana is an open-source non-profit organization aiming to advance the development and adoption of state-of-the-art NLP techniques and digital language tools to Ghanaian languag…
Contextual Text Embeddings for Twi
Paul Azunre, Salomey Osei, Salomey Addo +24
Transformer-based language models have been changing the modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) landscape for high-resource languages such as English, Chinese, Russian, etc. Howe…