Jonathan Mukiibi

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

2022 · Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

David Adelani, Jesujoba Alabi, Angela Fan, Julia Kreutzer, Xiaoyu Shen, Machel Reid, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow, Peter Nabende, Ernie Chang, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Freshia Sackey, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris Emezue, Colin Leong, Michael Beukman, Shamsuddeen …

The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus: A Luganda Radio Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition

2022

Building a usable radio monitoring automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a challenging task for under-resourced languages and yet this is paramount in societies where radio is the main medium of public communication and discussions.Initial …

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

2021 · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Abstract We take a step towards addressing the under- representation of the African continent in NLP research by bringing together different stakeholders to create the first large, publicly available, high-quality dataset for named entity recognition …