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cs.CL2025

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.CL2024

Kreyòl-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages

Nathaniel R. Robinson, Raj Dabre, Ammon Shurtz +14

A majority of language technologies are tailored for a small number of high-resource languages, while relatively many low-resource languages are neglected. One such group, Creole l…

cs.CL20231 cited

MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages

Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, David Adelani, Peter Nabende +41

In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages. We discuss the challenges in annotating POS for these…

cs.CL2023

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…

cs.CL20233 cited

The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages

Chris Emezue, Hellina Nigatu, Cynthia Thinwa +19

Stopwords are fundamental in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for information retrieval. One of the common tasks in preprocessing of text data is the removal of stopwor…