3 papers
cs.CL2026
AfroScope: A Framework for Studying the Linguistic Landscape of Africa
Sang Yun Kwon, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Language Identification (LID), the task of determining the language of a given text, is a fundamental preprocessing step that shapes the reliability of downstream NLP applications.…
cs.CL2025
Voice of a Continent: Mapping Africa's Speech Technology Frontier
AbdelRahim Elmadany, Sang Yun Kwon, Hawau Olamide Toyin +3
Africa's rich linguistic diversity remains significantly underrepresented in speech technologies, creating barriers to digital inclusion. To alleviate this challenge, we systematic…
cs.CL2025
Jawaher: A Multidialectal Dataset of Arabic Proverbs for LLM Benchmarking
Samar M. Magdy, Sang Yun Kwon, Fakhraddin Alwajih +3
Recent advancements in instruction fine-tuning, alignment methods such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and optimization techniques like direct preference opti…