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Analysing Public Transport User Sentiment on Low Resource Multilingual Data
Rozina L. Myoya, Vukosi Marivate, Idris Abdulmumin
Public transport systems in many Sub-Saharan countries often receive less attention compared to other sectors, underscoring the need for innovative solutions to improve the Quality…
Correcting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages
Idris Abdulmumin, Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Mahlatse S. Mbooi +7
This paper describes the corrections made to the FLORES evaluation (dev and devtest) dataset for four African languages, namely Hausa, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Xitsonga, and isiZul…
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…
SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla +14
We present the first shared task on Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR). While earlier shared tasks primarily focused on semantic similarity, we instead investigate the broader phen…
SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla +24
Exploring and quantifying semantic relatedness is central to representing language and holds significant implications across various NLP tasks. While earlier NLP research primarily…
Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset
Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Abubakar Auwal Khalid +6
Numerous successes have been achieved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, initially using various precautionary measures like lockdowns, social distancing, and the use of face mask…