OpenReview
.net
OpenReview
.net
Login
OpenReview
.net
Login
Verrah Akinyi Otiende
Researcher, MIDAS, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Assistant Professor, Higher Education, USIU- Africa
Joined
February 2022
Names
Verrah Akinyi Otiende
(Preferred)
,
Verrah Otiende
,
Verrah A Otiende
,
Verrah A. Otiende
Emails
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
,
****@gmail.com
(Confirmed)
,
****@usiu.ac.ke
(Confirmed)
,
****@umich.edu
(Confirmed)
Personal Links
Google Scholar
DBLP
ORCID
LinkedIn
Semantic Scholar
ACL Anthology
Career & Education History
Researcher
MIDAS,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
(umich.edu)
2025
–
Present
Assistant Professor
Higher Education,
USIU- Africa
(usiu.ac.ke)
2024
–
Present
Lecturer
Higher Education,
Tom Mboya University
(tmu.ac.ke)
2021
–
2023
Postdoc
Research and Development,
Certara & Pharmacometrics Africa
(pmxafrica.org)
2022
–
2022
PhD student
Higher Education,
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
(jkuat.ac.ke)
2015
–
2020
MS student
HIgher Education,
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
(jkuat.ac.ke)
2011
–
2013
Undergrad student
Higher Education,
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
(jkuat.ac.ke)
2006
–
2010
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
No relations added
Expertise
No areas of expertise listed
Publications
AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Empowering COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages
Jiayi Wang
,
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
,
Sweta Agrawal
,
Ricardo Rei
,
Eleftheria Briakou
,
Marine Carpuat
,
Marek Masiak
,
Xuanli He
,
Sofia Bourhim
,
Andiswa Bukula
,
Muhidin Mohamed
,
Temitayo Olatoye
,
Hamam Mokayed
,
Christine Mwase
,
Wangui Kimotho
,
Foutse Yuehgoh
,
Aremu Anuoluwapo
,
Jessica Ojo
,
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
,
Salomey Osei
et al. (37 additional authors not shown)
Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 11 Dec 2023
CoRR 2023
Readers:
Everyone
AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
Odunayo Ogundepo
,
Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe
,
Clara E. Rivera
,
Jonathan H. Clark
,
Sebastian Ruder
,
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
,
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou
,
Abdou Aziz Diop
,
Claytone Sikasote
,
Gilles Hacheme
,
Happy Buzaaba
,
Ignatius Ezeani
,
Rooweither Mabuya
,
Salomey Osei
,
Chris Emezue
,
Albert Njoroge Kahira
,
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
,
Akintunde Oladipo
,
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni
,
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
et al. (32 additional authors not shown)
Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 16 Feb 2024
CoRR 2023
Readers:
Everyone
Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
Odunayo Ogundepo
,
Tajuddeen Gwadabe
,
Clara Rivera
,
Jonathan H. Clark
,
Sebastian Ruder
,
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
,
Bonaventure Dossou
,
Abdou Aziz Diop
,
Claytone Sikasote
,
Gilles Hacheme
,
Happy Buzaaba
,
Ignatius Ezeani
,
Rooweither Mabuya
,
Salomey Osei
,
Chris Emezue
,
Albert Kahira
,
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
,
Akintunde Oladipo
,
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni
,
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 16 Feb 2024
EMNLP (Findings) 2023
Readers:
Everyone
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
,
Jade Z. Abbott
,
Graham Neubig
,
Daniel D'souza
,
Julia Kreutzer
,
Constantine Lignos
,
Chester Palen-Michel
,
Happy Buzaaba
,
Shruti Rijhwani
,
Sebastian Ruder
,
Stephen Mayhew
,
Israel Abebe Azime
,
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
,
Chris Chinenye Emezue
,
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende
,
Perez Ogayo
,
Aremu Anuoluwapo
,
Catherine Gitau
,
Derguene Mbaye
,
Jesujoba Alabi
et al. (41 additional authors not shown)
2021 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2021
Readers:
Everyone
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
,
Jade Z. Abbott
,
Graham Neubig
,
Daniel D'souza
,
Julia Kreutzer
,
Constantine Lignos
,
Chester Palen-Michel
,
Happy Buzaaba
,
Shruti Rijhwani
,
Sebastian Ruder
,
Stephen Mayhew
,
Israel Abebe Azime
,
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
,
Chris Chinenye Emezue
,
Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende
,
Perez Ogayo
,
Aremu Anuoluwapo
,
Catherine Gitau
,
Derguene Mbaye
,
Jesujoba O. Alabi
et al. (41 additional authors not shown)
Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 29 Sept 2023
AfricaNLP 2021
Readers:
Everyone
Co-Authors
Abdou Aziz Diop
Abdoulaye Diallo
Abdoulaye Faye
Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni
Adewale Akinfaderin
Afolabi Abeeb
Akari Asai
Akintunde Oladipo
Albert Kahira
Albert Njoroge Kahira
Andiswa Bukula
Andre Niyongabo Rubungo
Aremu Anuoluwapo
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
Awokoya Ayodele
Ayinde Hassan
Ayodele Awokoya
Bernard Opoku
Blessing K. Sibanda
Blessing Sibanda
Bonaventure Dossou
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou
Boyd Sinkala
Catherine Gitau
View all 150 co-authors