5 papers
Expanding the Lexicon of Ge'ez Based African Languages: A Comparative Study of Amharic and Tigrinya
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Wolfgang Nejdl
Multilingual pre-trained language models such as XLM-R perform well for major languages but struggle with low-resource Ge'ez-script languages, largely due to high out-of-vocabulary…
Ethio-ASR: Joint Multilingual Speech Recognition and Language Identification for Ethiopian Languages
Badr M. Abdullah, Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja +14
We present Ethio-ASR, a suite of multilingual CTC-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models jointly trained on five Ethiopian languages: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromo, Sidaama, an…
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva +16
Africa is home to over one-third of the world's languages, yet remains underrepresented in AI research. We introduce Afri-MCQA, the first Multilingual Cultural Question-Answering b…
CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation
Emilio Villa-Cueva, Sholpan Bolatzhanova, Diana Turmakhan +32
Translating cultural content poses challenges for machine translation systems due to the differences in conceptualizations between cultures, where language alone may fail to convey…
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…