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08/28/2023
FonMTL: Towards Multitask Learning for the Fon Language
The Fon language, spoken by an average 2 million of people, is a truly l...
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06/03/2023
Adapting Pretrained ASR Models to Low-resource Clinical Speech using Epistemic Uncertainty-based Data Selection
While there has been significant progress in ASR, African-accented clini...
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06/01/2023
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names
Useful conversational agents must accurately capture named entities to m...
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05/23/2023
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) d...
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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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03/29/2023
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages
Many natural language processing (NLP) tasks make use of massively pre-t...
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03/19/2023
Pretrained Vision Models for Predicting High-Risk Breast Cancer Stage
Cancer is increasingly a global health issue. Seconding cardiovascular d...
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11/07/2022
AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages
In recent years, multilingual pre-trained language models have gained pr...
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04/08/2022
MMTAfrica: Multilingual Machine Translation for African Languages
In this paper, we focus on the task of multilingual machine translation ...
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09/15/2021
FSER: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Speech Emotion Recognition
Using mel-spectrograms over conventional MFCCs features, we assess the a...
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03/22/2021
Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets
With the success of large-scale pre-training and multilingual modeling i...
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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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03/14/2021
Crowdsourced Phrase-Based Tokenization for Low-Resourced Neural Machine Translation: The Case of Fon Language
Building effective neural machine translation (NMT) models for very low-...
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03/13/2021
OkwuGbé: End-to-End Speech Recognition for Fon and Igbo
Language is inherent and compulsory for human communication. Whether exp...
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03/08/2021
AfriVEC: Word Embedding Models for African Languages. Case Study of Fon and Nobiin
From Word2Vec to GloVe, word embedding models have played key roles in t...
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12/07/2020
An Approach to Intelligent Pneumonia Detection and Integration
Each year, over 2.5 million people, most of them in developed countries,...
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08/03/2020
Lanfrica: A Participatory Approach to Documenting Machine Translation Research on African Languages
Over the years, there have been campaigns to include the African languag...
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06/14/2020
FFR v1.1: Fon-French Neural Machine Translation
All over the world and especially in Africa, researchers are putting eff...
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03/26/2020