3 papers
cs.CL2026
Embedding Initialization for Unseen Low-resource Languages in Multilingual NMT: A Case Study on Limbum-English Translation
Samiratu Ntohsi, Neza David Tuyishimire, Anesu Kafesu +3
Multilingual neural machine translation models such as NLLB-200 cover 200 languages but leave thousands unsupported, including most Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon. When fi…
cs.CY2025
IyaCare: An Integrated AI-IoT-Blockchain Platform for Maternal Health in Resource-Constrained Settings
Oche D. Ankeli, Marvin M. Ogore
Maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa remains critically high, accounting for 70% of global deaths despite representing only 17% of the world population. Current digital health…
cs.CL2025
AfriStereo: A Culturally Grounded Dataset for Evaluating Stereotypical Bias in Large Language Models
Yann Le Beux, Oluchi Audu, Oche D. Ankeli +4
Existing AI bias evaluation benchmarks largely reflect Western perspectives, leaving African contexts underrepresented and enabling harmful stereotypes in applications across vario…