David Ifeoluwa Adelani

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Research Publications

SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects

Despite the progress we have recorded in the last few years in multilingual...

YORC: Yoruba Reading Comprehension dataset

In this paper, we create YORC: a new multi-choice Yoruba Reading Comprehension dataset...

ÌròyìnSpeech: A multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus

We introduce the ÌròyìnSpeech corpus – a new dataset influenced by a des...

Improving Language Plasticity via Pretraining with Active Forgetting

Pretrained language models (PLMs) are today the primary model for natural...

NollySenti: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Nigerian Movie Sentiment Classification

Africa has over 2000 indigenous languages but they are under-represented...

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to ...

SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)

We present the first Africentric SemEval Shared task, Sentiment Analysis...

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Africa is home to over 2000 languages from over six language families ...

BLOOM+1: Adding Language Support to BLOOM for Zero-Shot Prompting

The BLOOM model is a large open-source multilingual language model capable...

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

BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages...

TOKEN is a MASK: Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Pre-trained Language Models

Transferring knowledge from one domain to another is of practical import...

Task-Adaptive Pre-Training for Boosting Learning With Noisy Labels: A Study on Text Classification for African Languages

For high-resource languages like English, text classification is a well...

MCSE: Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings

Learning semantically meaningful sentence embeddings is an open problem ...

yosm: A new yoruba sentiment corpus for movie reviews

A movie that is thoroughly enjoyed and recommended by an individual might...

Is BERT Robust to Label Noise? A Study on Learning with Noisy Labels in Text Classification

Incorrect labels in training data occur when human annotators make mistakes...

Multilingual Language Model Adaptive Fine-Tuning: A Study on African Languages

Multilingual pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated impressive...

Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation?

What can pre-trained multilingual sequence-to-sequence models like mBART...

NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in NLP...

Preventing Author Profiling through Zero-Shot Multilingual Back-Translation

Documents as short as a single sentence may inadvertently reveal sensitive...

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African...

Privacy Guarantees for De-identifying Text Transformations

Machine Learning approaches to Natural Language Processing tasks benefit...

Robust Differentially Private Training of Deep Neural Networks

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) is a variation...

Distant Supervision and Noisy Label Learning for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition: A Study on Hausa and Yorùbá

The lack of labeled training data has limited the development of natural...

Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation By Pivoting English Data and Self-Training

West African Pidgin English is a language that is significantly spoken...

Generating Sentiment-Preserving Fake Online Reviews Using Neural Language Models and Their Human- and Machine-based Detection

Advanced neural language models (NLMs) are widely used in sequence generation...