Kathleen Siminyu

Researcher, DAIR Institute

Joined

May 2021

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Kathleen Siminyu (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

DAIR Institute (dair-institute.org)

2024 – Present

MS student

Computer Science, University of Pretoria (up.ac.za)

2023 – 2025

Undergrad student

Science, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (jkuat.ac.ke)

2012 – 2016

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Publications

Phoneme Recognition through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: a Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties
Kathleen Siminyu, Xinjian Li, Antonios Anastasopoulos, David Mortensen, Michael R. Marlo, Graham Neubig
- 2021 (modified: 28 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments
David R. Mortensen, Jordan Picone, Xinjian Li, Kathleen Siminyu
- 2021 (modified: 28 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
AI4D - African Language Program
Kathleen Siminyu, Godson Kalipe, Davor Orlic, Jade Z. Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Sackey Freshia, Prateek Sibal, Bhanu Neupane, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Amelia Taylor, Jamiil Toure Ali, Kevin Degila, Momboladji Balogoun, Thierno Ibrahima Diop, Davis David, Chayma Fourati, Hatem Haddad, Malek Naski
- 2021 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Salomey Osei, Freshia Sackey, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa Berhe, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen et al. (27 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- EMNLP (Findings) 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Masakhane - Machine Translation For Africa
Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing Sibanda, Daniel Whitenack, Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Vukosi N. Marivate, Salomon Kabongo, Musie Meressa, Espoir Murhabazi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Elan Van Biljon, Arshath Ramkilowan, Adewale Akinfaderin, Alp Öktem, Wole Akin, Ghollah Kioko, Kevin Degila et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020
Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Vukosi Marivate
- 2020 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge
Kathleen Siminyu, Sackey Freshia, Jade Z. Abbott, Vukosi Marivate
- 2020 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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Kathleen Siminyu

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Career & Education History

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Expertise

Publications

Phoneme Recognition through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: a Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties

Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments

AI4D - African Language Program

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Masakhane - Machine Translation For Africa

1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge

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