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Christine Mwase

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

An Empirical Study of Distributed Deep Learning Training on Edge (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Deep learning (DL), despite its success in various fields, remains expensive and inaccessible to many due to its need for powerful supercomputing and high-end GPUs. This study explores alternative computing infrastructure and methods for distributed DL on low-energy, low-cost devices. We experiment…

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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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