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publications
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
Published in TACL 2021, 2020
This paper is about the creation of a NER dataset for 10 African languages
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Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
Published in EMNLP Findings, 2020
This paper is about participatory research for low-resourced machine translation.
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Quality-Aware Decoding for Neural Machine Translation
Published in NAACL 2022, 2022
This paper is about using quality estimations during MT decoding
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A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
Published in NAACL 2022, 2022
This paper is about the translations of African languages
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BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
Published in INTERSPEECH 2022, 2022
In this paper we create TTS datasets by aligning African languages Bible Recordings.
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Building African Voices
Published in INTERSPEECH 2022, 2022
This paper is about creating TTS datasets and synthesizers for African Languages using low-cost methods.
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When Is TTS Augmentation Through a Pivot Language Useful?
Published in INTERSPEECH 2022, 2022
Exploring how to leverage Synthetic speech in augmenting ASR training for low-resource languages.
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talks
Talk on MasakhaNER and Participatory Research
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Together with some members of Masakhane, we presented on our community and discussed the research work that we have been doing
Building African Voices
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Participated in the SustaiNLP2021 panel themed around Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing.
AfricaNLP workshop panel
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I moderated a panel consisting of Dr Abeba Birhane, Mohammed Ahmed, and Audace Niyonkuru on NLP in Africa and for African languages.
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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