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Ruqayya Nasir Iro

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

Mitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach

COLING 2024main

Low-resource languages often face challenges in acquiring high-quality language data due to the reliance on translation-based methods, which can introduce the translationese effect. This phenomenon results in translated sentences that lack fluency and naturalness in the target language. In this pape…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
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…

Cited by 0SourceScholar