ICLR 2023 Workshop AfricaNLP Submissions

NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING FOR AFRICAN LANGUAGES
Pierrette MAHORO MASTEL, Pierrette MAHORO MASTEL, Ester Namara, Aime Munezero, Richard Kagame, Zihan WANG, Allan Anzagira, Akshat Gupta, Jema David Ndibwile
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 20 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
AfriSign: Machine Translation for African Sign Languages
Shester Gueuwou, Kate Takyi, Mathias Müller, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Richard Adade, Rose-Mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Kinyarwanda TTS: Using a multi-speaker dataset to build a Kinyarwanda TTS model
Samuel Rutunda, Kleber Kabanda, Adriana Stan
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 20 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Improving African Language Identification with Multi-task Learning
Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 25 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
ERROR ANALYSIS OF TIGRINYA – ENGLISH MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS
Nuredin Ali Abdelkadir, Negasi Haile Abadi, Asmelash Teka Hadgu
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Tigrinya Dialect Identification
Asfaw Gedamu Haileslasie, Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Solomon Teferra Abate
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 16 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Leveraging African Low Resource TweetData for Sentiment Analysis
Saheed Salahudeen Abdullahi, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ahmad Mustapha Wali, Amina Abubakar Imam, Aliyu Rabiu Shuaibu, Yusuf Aliyu, Nur Bala Rabiu, Musa Bello, Shamsuddeen Umar Adamu, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Murja Sani Gadanya, Sanah Abdullahi Muaz, Mahmoud Said Ahmad, Abdulkadir Abdullahi, Abdulmalik Yusuf Jamoh
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 26 Mar 2024
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
IGBONER 2.0: EXPANDING NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION DATASETS VIA PROJECTION
Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Paul Rayson, Ignatius Ezeani, Mo El-Haj, DORIS CHINEDU ASOGWA, Chidimma Lilian Okpalla, CHINEDU EMMANUEL MBONU
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 19 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda
Rendani Mbuvha, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Tendani Mutavhatsindi, Tshimangadzo Rakhuhu, Aluwani Mauda, Tshifhiwa Joshua Maumela, Andisani Masindi, Seani Rananga, Vukosi Marivate, Tshilidzi Marwala
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 26 Mar 2024
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
FINE-TUNING MULTILINGUAL PRETRAINED AFRICAN LANGUAGE MODELS
Rozina Lucy Myoya, Fiskani Banda, Vukosi Marivate, Abiodun Modupe
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 02 May 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Breaking the Low-Resource Barrier for Dagbani ASR: From Data Collection to Modeling
Paul Azunre, Naafi Dasana Ibrahim
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Yoruba and Unicode: An Overview of a Problem
Kolawole Olatubosun
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 03 May 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
African Substrates Rather Than European Lexifiers to Augment African-diaspora Creole Translation
Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Matthew Dean Stutzman, Stephen D. Richardson, David R Mortensen
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 16 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Kinyarwanda, Swahili, and Luganda: Advancing ASR in Select East African Languages
Moayad Elamin, Yonas Chanie, Paul Ewuzie, Samuel Rutunda
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 20 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Speech Recognition Datasets for Low-resource Congolese Languages
USSEN ABRE KIMANUKA, Ciira wa Maina, Osman Büyük
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Multilingual Model and Data Resources for Text-To-Speech in Ugandan Languages
Isaac Owomugisha, Benjamin Akera, Ernest Tonny Mwebaze, John Quinn
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 21 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
LEXICON AND RULE-BASED WORD LEMMATIZATION APPROACH FOR SOMALI LANGUAGE
Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Muhidin A. Mohamed
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Koya: A Recommender System for Large Language Model Selection
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chris Chinenye Emezue
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
How good are Commercial Large Language Models on African Languages?
Jessica Ojo, Kelechi Ogueji
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 16 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
AfroDigits: A Community-Driven Spoken Digit Dataset for African Languages
Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sanchit Gandhi, Lewis Tunstall, Abubakar Abid, Joshua Meyer, Quentin Lhoest, Pete Allen, Patrick Von Platen, Douwe Kiela, Yacine Jernite, Julien Chaumond, Merve Noyan, Omar Sanseviero
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Christine Mwase, Odunayo Ogundepo, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Akintunde Oladipo, Doreen Nixdorf, Chris Chinenye Emezue, sana Sabah al-azzawi, Blessing Kudzaishe Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni et al. (42 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 26 Mar 2024
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
ε KÚ <MASK>: INTEGRATING YORÙBÁ CULTURAL GREETINGS INTO MACHINE TRANSLATION
Idris Akinade, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Clement Oyeleke Odoje, Dietrich Klakow
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Sahib Singh
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 27 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating the Robustness of Machine Reading Comprehension Models to Low Resource Entity Renaming
Clemencia Siro, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages
Colin Leong, Herumb Shandilya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Joel Mathew, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Oreen Yousuf, Zainab Akinjobi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Shamsudeen Muhammad, Steven Kolawole, Younwoo Choi, Tosin Adewumi
- Published: 03 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 15 Apr 2023
- AfricaNLP 2023
- Readers: Everyone