Daniel D’souza

A Tale Of Two Long Tails

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

As machine learning models are increasingly employed to assist human decision-makers, it becomes critical to communicate the uncertainty associated with these model predictions. However, the majority of work on uncertainty has focused on traditional probabilistic …

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 …