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FonMTL: Towards Multitask Learning for the Fon Language
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Iffanice Houndayi, Pamely Zantou +1
The Fon language, spoken by an average 2 million of people, is a truly low-resourced African language, with a limited online presence, and existing datasets (just to name but a few…
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…
MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42
African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…
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…