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Does Generative AI speak Nigerian-Pidgin?: Issues about Representativeness and Bias for Multilingualism in LLMs
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, A. Seza Doğruöz, Iyanuoluwa Shode +1
Nigeria is a multilingual country with 500+ languages. Naija is a Nigerian Pidgin spoken by approximately 120M speakers and it is a mixed language (e.g., English, Portuguese, Yorub…
MEDs for PETs: Multilingual Euphemism Disambiguation for Potentially Euphemistic Terms
Patrick Lee, Alain Chirino Trujillo, Diana Cuevas Plancarte +6
This study investigates the computational processing of euphemisms, a universal linguistic phenomenon, across multiple languages. We train a multilingual transformer model (XLM-RoB…
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…
FEED PETs: Further Experimentation and Expansion on the Disambiguation of Potentially Euphemistic Terms
Patrick Lee, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Alain Chirino Trujillo +5
Transformers have been shown to work well for the task of English euphemism disambiguation, in which a potentially euphemistic term (PET) is classified as euphemistic or non-euphem…
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…
NollySenti: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Nigerian Movie Sentiment Classification
Iyanuoluwa Shode, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jing Peng +1
Africa has over 2000 indigenous languages but they are under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets. In recent years, there have been progress in developing labeled co…
Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages
Israel Abebe Azime, Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja +8
AfriSenti-SemEval Shared Task 12 of SemEval-2023. The task aims to perform monolingual sentiment classification (sub-task A) for 12 African languages, multilingual sentiment classi…
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime +62
African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets covering several NLP tasks. While there are individual language specific datasets that are…
AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Oreen Yousuf +5
In recent years, multilingual pre-trained language models have gained prominence due to their remarkable performance on numerous downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (NLP).…
yosm: A new yoruba sentiment corpus for movie reviews
Iyanuoluwa Shode, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Anna Feldman
A movie that is thoroughly enjoyed and recommended by an individual might be hated by another. One characteristic of humans is the ability to have feelings which could be positive…