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Jesujoba O. Alabi

3 accepted papers

2022

Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to African Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning

COLING 2022main

Multilingual pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on several downstream tasks for both high-resourced and low-resourced languages. However, there is still a large performance drop for languages unseen during pre-training, especially African languages. One of th…

2022

Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning

COLING 2022main

The surging demand for multilingual dialogue systems often requires a costly labeling process for each language addition. For low resource languages, human annotators are continuously tasked with the adaptation of resource-rich language utterances for each new domain. However, this prohibitive and i…

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2022

MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

EMNLP 2022main

African languages are spoken by over a billion people, but they are under-represented in NLP research and development. Multiple challenges exist, including the limited availability of annotated training and evaluation datasets as well as the lack of understanding of which settings, languages, and re…