Claytone Sikasote — accepted AI-conference papers

2023

BIG-C: a Multimodal Multi-Purpose Dataset for Bemba

Claytone Sikasote, Eunice Mukonde, Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos

ACL 2023long

We present BIG-C (Bemba Image Grounded Conversations), a large multimodal dataset for Bemba. While Bemba is the most populous language of Zambia, it exhibits a dearth of resources which render the development of language technologies or language processing research almost impossible. The dataset is…

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2023

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera, Jonathan H. Clark, Sebastian Ruder, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +38

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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