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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…
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…
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…
Towards a Better Understanding of the Computer Vision Research Community in Africa
Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Mai Gamal, Eman Ehab +11
Computer vision is a broad field of study that encompasses different tasks (e.g., object detection). Although computer vision is relevant to the African communities in various appl…
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…
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages
Colin Leong, Herumb Shandilya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou +10
Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks make use of massively pre-trained language models, which are computationally expensive. However, access to high computational resources…