3 papers
cs.CL2026
Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.AI2025
The State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges
Kedir Yassin Hussen, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Abinew Ali Ayele +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Natural Language Processing (NLP), but their benefits are largely absent for Africa's 2,000 low-resource languages. This paper compara…