5 papers
Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Michael A. Hedderich, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +1
With over 2,000 languages and potentially millions of speakers, Africa represents one of the richest linguistic regions in the world. Yet, this diversity is scarcely reflected in s…
Less Stress, More Privacy: Stress Detection on Anonymized Speech of Air Traffic Controllers
Janaki Viswanathan, Alexander Blatt, Konrad Hagemann +1
Air traffic control (ATC) demands multi-tasking under time pressure with high consequences of an error. This can induce stress. Detecting stress is a key point in maintaining the h…
AfriHuBERT: A self-supervised speech representation model for African languages
Jesujoba O. Alabi, Xuechen Liu, Dietrich Klakow +1
In this work, we present AfriHuBERT, an extension of mHuBERT-147, a compact self-supervised learning (SSL) model pretrained on 147 languages. While mHuBERT-147 covered 16 African l…
ProverbEval: Exploring LLM Evaluation Challenges for Low-resource Language Understanding
Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay +11
With the rapid development of evaluation datasets to assess LLMs understanding across a wide range of subjects and domains, identifying a suitable language understanding benchmark…
Uhura: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Question Answering and Truthfulness in Low-Resource African Languages
Edward Bayes, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba O. Alabi +11
Evaluations of Large Language Models (LLMs) on knowledge-intensive tasks and factual accuracy often focus on high-resource languages primarily because datasets for low-resource lan…