Shruti Rijhwani

Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Cross-lingual transfer, where a high-resource transfer language is used to improve the accuracy of a low-resource task language, is now an invaluable tool for improving performance of natural language processing (NLP) on low-resource languages. However, …

OCR Post Correction for Endangered Language Texts

2020

There is little to no data available to build natural language processing models for most endangered languages. However, textual data in these languages often exists in formats that are not machine-readable, such as paper books …

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 …