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most citedThe African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages

3 citations · 6 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CL2024

Mitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach

Garry Kuwanto, Eno-Abasi E. Urua, Priscilla Amondi Amuok +21

Low-resource languages often face challenges in acquiring high-quality language data due to the reliance on translation-based methods, which can introduce the translationese effect…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages

Chris Emezue, Hellina Nigatu, Cynthia Thinwa +19

Stopwords are fundamental in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for information retrieval. One of the common tasks in preprocessing of text data is the removal of stopwor…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

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…

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★ 1 cited

Design and Implementation of English To Yorùbá Verb Phrase Machine Translation System

Benjamin Ajibade, Safiriyu Eludiora

We aim to develop an English-to-Yoruba machine translation system which can translate English verb phrase text to its Yoruba equivalent.Words from both languages Source Language an…