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Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu

3 accepted papers

2024

AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages

NAACL 2024long

Despite the recent progress on scaling multilingual machine translation (MT) to several under-resourced African languages, accurately measuring this progress remains challenging, since evaluation is often performed on n-gram matching metrics such as BLEU, which typically show a weaker correlation wi…

2024

The IgboAPI Dataset: Empowering Igbo Language Technologies through Multi-dialectal Enrichment

COLING 2024main

The Igbo language is facing a risk of becoming endangered, as indicated by a 2025 UNESCO study. This highlights the need to develop language technologies for Igbo to foster communication, learning and preservation. To create robust, impactful, and widely adopted language technologies for Igbo, it is…

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2023

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

EMNLP 2023long findings

African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering (XOR QA) systems -- those that retrieve answer content from other languages while s…

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