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Olanrewaju Samuel

2 accepted papers

2024

Kreyòl-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages

NAACL 2024long

A majority of language technologies are tailored for a small number of high-resource languages, while relatively many low-resource languages are neglected. One such group, Creole languages, have long been marginalized in academic study, though their speakers could benefit from machine translation (M…

2023

MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African languages

ACL 2023long

In this paper, we present AfricaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) dataset for 20 typologically diverse African languages. We discuss the challenges in annotating POS for these languages using the universal dependencies (UD) guidelines. We conducted extensive POS baseline experiments using both c…