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Tatiana Moteu Ngoli

2 accepted papers

2025

LOLA – An Open-Source Massively Multilingual Large Language Model

COLING 2025main

This paper presents LOLA, a massively multilingual large language model trained on more than 160 languages using a sparse Mixture-of-Experts Transformer architecture. Our architectural and implementation choices address the challenge of harnessing linguistic diversity while maintaining efficiency an…

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…