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MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder +42
African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but are underrepresented in NLP research and development. The challenges impeding progress include the limited availability o…
TaTa: A Multilingual Table-to-Text Dataset for African Languages
Sebastian Gehrmann, Sebastian Ruder, Vitaly Nikolaev +4
Existing data-to-text generation datasets are mostly limited to English. To address this lack of data, we create Table-to-Text in African languages (TaTa), the first large multilin…
Language Models are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners
Freda Shi, Mirac Suzgun, Markus Freitag +9
We evaluate the reasoning abilities of large language models in multilingual settings. We introduce the Multilingual Grade School Math (MGSM) benchmark, by manually translating 250…
XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech Representations
Alexis Conneau, Ankur Bapna, Yu Zhang +16
We introduce XTREME-S, a new benchmark to evaluate universal cross-lingual speech representations in many languages. XTREME-S covers four task families: speech recognition, classif…
Expanding Pretrained Models to Thousands More Languages via Lexicon-based Adaptation
Xinyi Wang, Sebastian Ruder, Graham Neubig
The performance of multilingual pretrained models is highly dependent on the availability of monolingual or parallel text present in a target language. Thus, the majority of the wo…
One Country, 700+ Languages: NLP Challenges for Underrepresented Languages and Dialects in Indonesia
Alham Fikri Aji, Genta Indra Winata, Fajri Koto +9
NLP research is impeded by a lack of resources and awareness of the challenges presented by underrepresented languages and dialects. Focusing on the languages spoken in Indonesia,…