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AfriSUD: A Dependency Treebank Collection for Evaluating Models on African Languages
Happy Buzaaba, Cheikh Mouhamadou Bamba Dione, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +15
Despite their linguistic diversity and global significance, African languages remain underrepresented in research and resources to support NLP. We aim to bridge this gap by introdu…
InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Jessica Ojo +8
High-resource language models often fall short in the African context, where there is a critical need for models that are efficient, accessible, and locally relevant, even amidst s…
ÌròyìnSpeech: A multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus
Tolulope Ogunremi, Kola Tubosun, Anuoluwapo Aremu +2
We introduce ÌròyìnSpeech, a new corpus influenced by the desire to increase the amount of high quality, contemporary Yorùbá speech data, which can be used for both Text-to-Speech…
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…
AfriWOZ: Corpus for Exploiting Cross-Lingual Transferability for Generation of Dialogues in Low-Resource, African Languages
Tosin Adewumi, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Aremu Anuoluwapo +17
Dialogue generation is an important NLP task fraught with many challenges. The challenges become more daunting for low-resource African languages. To enable the creation of dialogu…
The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics
Sebastian Gehrmann, Tosin Adewumi, Karmanya Aggarwal +53
We introduce GEM, a living benchmark for natural language Generation (NLG), its Evaluation, and Metrics. Measuring progress in NLG relies on a constantly evolving ecosystem of auto…