2 papers
cs.CL2026
UbuntuGuard: A Culturally-Grounded Policy Benchmark for Equitable AI Safety in African Languages
Tassallah Abdullahi, Macton Mgonzo, Mardiyyah Oduwole +4
Current guardian models are predominantly Western-centric and optimized for high-resource languages, leaving low-resource African languages vulnerable to evolving harms, cross-ling…
cs.CL2025
From Scarcity to Efficiency: Investigating the Effects of Data Augmentation on African Machine Translation
Mardiyyah Oduwole, Oluwatosin Olajide, Jamiu Suleiman +9
The linguistic diversity across the African continent presents different challenges and opportunities for machine translation. This study explores the effects of data augmentation…