18 papers
From Monolingual to Multilingual: Evaluating Mamba for ASR in South African Languages
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Julian Herreilers, Badr M. Abdullah +1
Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have explored different sequence models, including Conformer-based models and newer state space models such as Mamba. Although…
A Mechanistic Understanding of Pronoun Fidelity in LLMs
Katharina Trinley, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Dietrich Klakow +1
Faithful and robust pronoun use is important for fair and coherent generations, yet large language models largely fail when multiple referents use different pronouns. To study the…
OpenBibleTTS: Large-Scale Speech Resources and TTS Models for Low-Resource Languages
David Guzmán, Luel Hagos Beyene, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi +3
Recent advances in neural text-to-speech (TTS) and multilingual speech generation have substantially improved synthetic speech quality, yet these gains remain unevenly distributed…
AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages
Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang +16
Assessing the veracity of a claim made online is a complex and important task with real-world implications. When these claims are directed at communities with limited access to inf…
Saar-Voice: A Multi-Speaker Saarbrücken Dialect Speech Corpus
Lena S. Oberkircher, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Dietrich Klakow +1
Natural language processing (NLP) and speech technologies have made significant progress in recent years; however, they remain largely focused on standardized language varieties. D…
YoNER: A New Yorùbá Multi-domain Named Entity Recognition Dataset
Peace Busola Falola, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Solomon O. Akinola +3
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a foundational NLP task, yet research in Yorùbá has been constrained by limited and domain-specific resources. Existing resources, such as Masak…