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Ikenga Nation TV | Igbo Lectures | Nsibidi & more

IkengaNation We believe in rethinking education in Africa to focus on native language centered education. We are doing this through children's programming using puppets (like on Sesame Street). The goal is to educate young Igbo children (in Igbo land, Nigeria) ab...

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A Basic Language Resource Kit Implementation for the IgboNLP Project

Igbo, an African language with around 32 million speakers worldwide, is one of the many languages having few or none of the language processing resources needed for advanced language technology applications. In this article, we describe the approach taken to creati...

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A diachronic analysis of the socio-semantic features of Igbo personal names

This paper examines Igbo personal names from the perspectives of anthropological linguistics, socio-semantics, pragmatics and diachrony. It traces the evolution of name-giving within three major eras, pre-Christian (before the 1850s), early-Christian (from 1857--19...

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

Recent advances in the pre-training of language models leverage large-scale datasets to create multilingual models. However, low-resource languages are mostly left out in these datasets. This is primarily because many widely spoken languages are not well represente...

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A Multilingual African Embedding for FAQ Chatbots

Searching for an available, reliable, official, and understandable information is not a trivial task due to scattered information across the internet, and the availability lack of governmental communication channels communicating with African dialects and languages...

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Adapters for African languages -- based on AfroXLMR

MAD-X adapters trained on AfroXLMR-base, it has the same configuration as XLMR-base....

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Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to African Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning

Multilingual pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on several downstream tasks for both high-resourced and low-resourced languages. However, there is still a large performance drop for languages unseen during pre-training, espe...

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AfriBERTa: Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages

This repository contains the code for the paper Small Data? No Problem! Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages which appears in the first workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning at EMNLP 2021. AfriBE...

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AfriCLIRMatrix

AfriCLIRMatrix is a test collection for cross-lingual information retrieval research in 15 diverse African languages. This resource comprises English queries with query–document relevance judgments in 15 African languages automatically mined from Wikipedia...

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AfriCLIRMatrix: Enabling Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for African Languages

Language diversity in NLP is critical in enabling the development of tools for a wide range of users.However, there are limited resources for building such tools for many languages, particularly those spoken in Africa.For search, most existing datasets feature few ...

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AfriSenti

AfriSenti is the largest sentiment analysis dataset for under-represented African languages, covering 110,000+ annotated tweets in 14 African languages (Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mozambican Portuguese, Nigerian Pidgin, Oro...

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AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Africa is home to over 2000 languages from over six language families and has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. This includes 75 languages with at least one million speakers each. Yet, there is little NLP research conducted on African languages...

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AfriTeVa-Keji

This repository contains code to reproduce Better Quality Pre-training Data and T5 Models for African Languages which appears in the 2023 conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). AfriTeVa V2 was trained on 20 languages (16 African La...

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AfroDigits: A Community-Driven Spoken Digit Dataset for African Languages

The advancement of speech technologies has been remarkable, yet its integration with African languages remains limited due to the scarcity of African speech corpora. To address this issue, we present AfroDigits, a minimalist, community-driven dataset of spoken digi...

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AfroDigits: A Community-Driven Spoken Digit Dataset for African Languages

The advancement of speech technologies has been remarkable, yet its integration with African languages remains limited due to the scarcity of African speech corpora. To address this issue, we present AfroDigits, a minimalist, community-driven dataset of spoken digi...

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