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Evaluating the Effect of Linguistic Relatedness on Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition
Andrei Florian, Cynthia Jayne Amol, Hope Kerubo Ombaba +6
Extending automatic speech recognition (ASR) to low-resource African languages is constrained by the prohibitive demands of data collection at scale. A promising direction is to le…
AfriVoices-KE: A Multilingual Speech Dataset for Kenyan Languages
Lilian Wanzare, Cynthia Amol, Ezekiel Maina +14
AfriVoices-KE is a large-scale multilingual speech dataset comprising approximately 3,000 hours of audio across five Kenyan languages: Dholuo, Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Maasai, and Somali.…
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
State of NLP in Kenya: A Survey
Cynthia Jayne Amol, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Rose Delilah Gesicho +13
Kenya, known for its linguistic diversity, faces unique challenges and promising opportunities in advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, particularly for its und…