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First Attempt at Building Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation of Northeast India's Very Low-Resource Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Melkamu Mersha, Ananya Kalita +2
This paper presents the creation of initial bilingual corpora for thirteen very low-resource languages of India, all from Northeast India. It also presents the results of initial t…
The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jugal Kalita
Multilingual Language Models offer a way to incorporate multiple languages in one model and utilize cross-language transfer learning to improve performance for different Natural La…
AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Aditya Yadavalli +8
Africa has a very low doctor-to-patient ratio. At very busy clinics, doctors could see 30+ patients per day -- a heavy patient burden compared with developed countries -- but produ…
Automatic Translation of Hate Speech to Non-hate Speech in Social Media Texts
Yevhen Kostiuk, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Grigori Sidorov +1
In this paper, we investigate the issue of hate speech by presenting a novel task of translating hate speech into non-hate speech text while preserving its meaning. As a case study…
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou +4
Useful conversational agents must accurately capture named entities to minimize error for downstream tasks, for example, asking a voice assistant to play a track from a certain art…
Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Olga Kolesnikova +3
This paper describes CIC NLP's submission to the AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on machine translation systems for indigenous languages of the Americas. We present the system descrip…
Parallel Corpus for Indigenous Language Translation: Spanish-Mazatec and Spanish-Mixtec
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Christian Maldonado-Sifuentes, David Alejandro Mendoza Castillo +4
In this paper, we present a parallel Spanish-Mazatec and Spanish-Mixtec corpus for machine translation (MT) tasks, where Mazatec and Mixtec are two indigenous Mexican languages. We…
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…
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…
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages
Colin Leong, Herumb Shandilya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou +10
Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks make use of massively pre-trained language models, which are computationally expensive. However, access to high computational resources…
Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime +4
This survey delves into the current state of natural language processing (NLP) for four Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Tigrinya, and Wolaytta. Through this paper, we id…
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…