Expanding a multilingual media monitoring and information extraction tool to a new language: Swahili

Sunflower: A New Approach To Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models

There are more than 2000 living languages in Africa, most of which have been bypassed by advances in language technology. Current leading LLMs exhibit strong performance on a number of the most common languages (e.g. Swahili or Yoruba), but prioritise support fo

Language-Preference-Based Re-ranking for Multilingual Swahili Information Retrieval

Multilingual Entity and Relation Extraction from Unified to Language-specific Training

Entity and relation extraction is a key task in information extraction, where the output can be used

Exploring Topic-language Preferences in Multilingual Swahili Information Retrieval in Tanzania

Habitual switching of languages is a common behaviour among polyglots when searching for information

Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language Models

Multilingual language models are trained on a fixed set of languages, and to support new languages,

saltPAD: A New Analytical Tool for Monitoring Salt Iodization in Low Resource Settings

We created a paper test card that measures a common iodizing agent, iodate, in salt. To test the ana