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Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language Models
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Sachin Kumar
Multilingual language models are trained on a fixed set of languages, and to support new languages, the models need to be retrained from scratch. This is an expensive endeavor and…
FLEXITOKENS: Flexible Tokenization for Evolving Language Models
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar
Adapting language models to new data distributions by simple finetuning is challenging. This is due to the rigidity of their subword tokenizers, which typically remain unchanged du…
AccentFold: A Journey through African Accents for Zero-Shot ASR Adaptation to Target Accents
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Aditya Yadavalli, Chris Chinenye Emezue +2
Despite advancements in speech recognition, accented speech remains challenging. While previous approaches have focused on modeling techniques or creating accented speech datasets,…
AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera +49
African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingu…
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…