Publications

NAACL 2024

• AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Empowering COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages

IJCNLP-AACL 2023  

• MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

4th Workshop on AfricaNLP, ICLR 2023

• Workshop Proceedings

EMNLP 2022

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

SustaiNLP 2022

• AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages 

Interspeech 2022

• BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus

• Building African Voices

Sustainability 2022

• Participatory Detection of Language Barriers towards Multilingual Sustainability(ies) in Africa

NAACL 2022

• A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

3rd Workshop on AfricaNLP, ICLR 2022

• Workshop Proceedings

TACL 2021

• MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

• Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets

WMT 2021

• MMTAfrica: Multilingual Machine Translation for African Languages

AfricaNLP Workshop Publications, EACL 2021 

• Workshop Website

EMNLP 2020 

• ∀, Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages (EMNLP findings 2020)

WiNLP Workshop Publications, ACL 2020

• Dossou, Bonaventure F. P. , and Chris C. Emezue. "FFR v1.1: Fon-French Neural Machine Translation"

ML4D, NeurIPS 2020

• Tosin P. Adewumi, Foteini Liwicki & Marcus Liwick, "The Challenge of Diacritics in Yorùbá Embeddings"

• Gilles Hacheme. English2Gbe: A multilingual machine translation model for {Fon/Ewe}Gbe

AfricaNLP Workshop Publications, ICLR 2020 

• ∀, Masakhane - Machine Translation for Africa (2020)

• Dossou, Bonaventure FP, and Chris C. Emezue. "FFR V1. 0: Fon-French Neural Machine Translation." (2020).

• Orife, Iroro. "Towards Neural Machine Translation for Edoid Languages." (2020)

• Orife, Iroro, et al. "Improving Yor\ub\'a Diacritic Restoration." (2020).

• Marivate, Vukosi, et al. "Investigating an approach for low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi." (2020).

• Ahia, Orevaoghene, and Kelechi Ogueji. "Towards Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Baselines for Nigerian Pidgin." (2020).

• Van Biljon, Elan, Arnu Pretorius, and Julia Kreutzer. "On optimal transformer depth for low-resource language translation. (2020).

• Öktem, Alp, Mirko Plitt, and Grace Tang. "Tigrinya Neural Machine Translation with Transfer Learning for Humanitarian Response." (2020)

• Martinus, Laura, et al., Neural Machine Translation for South Africa's Official Languages (2020)