7 papers
DunbaaBERT: From Sacrifice to Semantics
Iffat Maab, Waleed Jamil, Raphael Schmitt
Large language models have achieved strong performance across many NLP tasks, yet Urdu remains comparatively underexplored due to limited resources and fragmented evaluation settin…
Investigating Thinking Behaviours of Reasoning-Based Language Models for Social Bias Mitigation
Guoqing Luo, Iffat Maab, Lili Mou +1
While reasoning-based large language models excel at complex tasks through an internal, structured thinking process, a concerning phenomenon has emerged that such a thinking proces…
From Articles to Premises: Building PrimeFacts, an Extraction Methodology and Resource for Fact-Checking Evidence
Premtim Sahitaj, Jawan Kolanowski, Ariana Sahitaj +7
Fact-checking articles encode rich supporting evidence and reasoning, yet this evidence remains largely inaccessible to automated verification systems due to unstructured presentat…
AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages
Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang +16
Assessing the veracity of a claim made online is a complex and important task with real-world implications. When these claims are directed at communities with limited access to inf…
When Bigger Isn't Better: A Comprehensive Fairness Evaluation of Political Bias in Multi-News Summarisation
Nannan Huang, Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi
Multi-document news summarisation systems are increasingly adopted for their convenience in processing vast daily news content, making fairness across diverse political perspective…
AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Israel Abebe Azime, Miaoran Zhang +13
This paper introduces AFRIDOC-MT, a document-level multi-parallel translation dataset covering English and five African languages: Amharic, Hausa, Swahili, Yorùbá, and Zulu. The…