3 papers
cs.CL2024
Text Categorization Can Enhance Domain-Agnostic Stopword Extraction
Houcemeddine Turki, Naome A. Etori, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb +6
This paper investigates the role of text categorization in streamlining stopword extraction in natural language processing (NLP), specifically focusing on nine African languages al…
cs.CV2024
The State of Computer Vision Research in Africa
Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Ashery Mbilinyi, Lukman Ismaila +16
Despite significant efforts to democratize artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision which is a sub-field of AI, still lags in Africa. A significant factor to this, is the limi…
cs.CL2023
AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages
Jiayi Wang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sweta Agrawal +55
Despite the recent progress on scaling multilingual machine translation (MT) to several under-resourced African languages, accurately measuring this progress remains challenging, s…