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most citedMasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

4 citations · 4 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Detecting Experiential Intertextuality Across Migration Routes: Beyond Surface Similarity in French Narratives

Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Nelly Robin, Michelle Auzanneau +5

Migrants traversing geographically distinct routes such as the Trans-Saharan and Balkan corridors often recount strikingly parallel lived experiences: police violence, smuggler exp…

cs.CL2025

Pretraining Strategies using Monolingual and Parallel Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation

Idriss Nguepi Nguefack, Mara Finkelstein, Toadoum Sari Sakayo

This research article examines the effectiveness of various pretraining strategies for developing machine translation models tailored to low-resource languages. Although this work…

cs.CL2023

AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages

Jiayi Wang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sweta Agrawal +55

Despite the recent progress on scaling multilingual machine translation (MT) to several under-resourced African languages, accurately measuring this progress remains challenging, s…

cs.CL2023

Ngambay-French Neural Machine Translation (sba-Fr)

Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Angela Fan, Lema Logamou Seknewna

In Africa, and the world at large, there is an increasing focus on developing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems to overcome language barriers. NMT for Low-resource language…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime +62

African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets covering several NLP tasks. While there are individual language specific datasets that are…