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Verrah Akinyi Otiende

2 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…

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…

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