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ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding
Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay +11
With the rapid development of evaluation datasets to assess LLMs understanding across a wide range of subjects and domains, identifying a suitable language understanding benchmark…
The Zeno's Paradox of `Low-Resource' Languages
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Benjamin Rosman +2
The disparity in the languages commonly studied in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is typically reflected by referring to languages as low vs high-resourced. However, there is li…
InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Jessica Ojo +8
High-resource language models often fall short in the African context, where there is a critical need for models that are efficient, accessible, and locally relevant, even amidst s…
NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt +4
The paper focuses on the marginalization of indigenous language communities in the face of rapid technological advancements. We highlight the cultural richness of these languages a…
EthioMT: Parallel Corpus for Low-resource Ethiopian Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander Gelbukh +1
Recent research in natural language processing (NLP) has achieved impressive performance in tasks such as machine translation (MT), news classification, and question-answering in h…
EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Israel Abebe Azime, Tadesse Destaw Belay +10
Large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity recently due to their outstanding performance in various downstream Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, low-resour…
Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets
Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay +6
Large language models (LLMs) have received a lot of attention in natural language processing (NLP) research because of their exceptional performance in understanding and generating…