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09/14/2023
SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects
Despite the progress we have recorded in the last few years in multiling...
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08/18/2023
YORC: Yoruba Reading Comprehension dataset
In this paper, we create YORC: a new multi-choice Yoruba Reading Compreh...
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07/29/2023
ÌròyìnSpeech: A multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus
We introduce the ÌròyìnSpeech corpus – a new dataset influenced by a des...
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07/03/2023
Improving Language Plasticity via Pretraining with Active Forgetting
Pretrained language models (PLMs) are today the primary model for natura...
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05/18/2023
NollySenti: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Nigerian Movie Sentiment Classification
Africa has over 2000 indigenous languages but they are under-represented...
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04/19/2023
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to ...
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04/13/2023
SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)
We present the first Africentric SemEval Shared task, Sentiment Analysis...
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02/17/2023
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
Africa is home to over 2000 languages from over six language families an...
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12/19/2022
BLOOM+1: Adding Language Support to BLOOM for Zero-Shot Prompting
The BLOOM model is a large open-source multilingual language model capab...
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07/07/2022
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages...
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06/15/2022
TOKEN is a MASK: Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Pre-trained Language Models
Transferring knowledge from one domain to another is of practical import...
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06/03/2022
Task-Adaptive Pre-Training for Boosting Learning With Noisy Labels: A Study on Text Classification for African Languages
For high-resource languages like English, text classification is a well-...
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04/22/2022
MCSE: Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
Learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings is an open problem ...
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04/20/2022
yosm: A new yoruba sentiment corpus for movie reviews
A movie that is thoroughly enjoyed and recommended by an individual migh...
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04/20/2022
Is BERT Robust to Label Noise? A Study on Learning with Noisy Labels in Text Classification
Incorrect labels in training data occur when human annotators make mista...
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04/13/2022
Multilingual Language Model Adaptive Fine-Tuning: A Study on African Languages
Multilingual pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impres...
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03/16/2022
Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation?
What can pre-trained multilingual sequence-to-sequence models like mBART...
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01/20/2022
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in NLP...
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09/19/2021
Preventing Author Profiling through Zero-Shot Multilingual Back-Translation
Documents as short as a single sentence may inadvertently reveal sensiti...
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03/22/2021
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the Africa...
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08/07/2020
Privacy Guarantees for De-identifying Text Transformations
Machine Learning approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks benefit...
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06/19/2020
Robust Differentially Private Training of Deep Neural Networks
Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) is a variatio...
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03/18/2020
Distant Supervision and Noisy Label Learning for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition: A Study on Hausa and Yorùbá
The lack of labeled training data has limited the development of natural...
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03/18/2020
Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation By Pivoting English Data and Self-Training
West African Pidgin English is a language that is significantly spoken i...
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07/22/2019