SERENGETI: Massively Multilingual Language Models for Africa

21 December 2022

Ife Adebara

AbdelRahim Elmadany

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Alcides Alcoba Inciarte

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Lugha-Llama: Adapting Large Language Models for African Languages Happy Buzaaba Alexander Wettig David Ifeoluwa Adelani Christiane Fellbaum 34 0 0 09 Apr 2025
An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies Laurie Burchell Ona de Gibert Nikolay Arefyev Mikko Aulamo Marta Bañón ... Pavel Stepachev and Jörg Tiedemann Dušan Variš Tereza Vojtěchová Jaume Zaragoza-Bernabeu 43 1 0 13 Mar 2025
Where Are We? Evaluating LLM Performance on African Languages Ife Adebara Hawau Olamide Toyin Nahom Tesfu Ghebremichael AbdelRahim Elmadany Muhammad Abdul-Mageed 57 0 0 26 Feb 2025
GlotCC: An Open Broad-Coverage CommonCrawl Corpus and Pipeline for Minority Languages Amir Hossein Kargaran François Yvon Hinrich Schutze VLM 36 5 0 31 Oct 2024
State of NLP in Kenya: A Survey Cynthia Jayne Amol Everlyn Asiko Chimoto Rose Delilah Gesicho Antony M. Gitau Naome A. Etori ... Catherine Gitau Antony Ndolo Lilian D. A. Wanzare Albert Njoroge Kahira Ronald Tombe 29 1 0 13 Oct 2024
From N-grams to Pre-trained Multilingual Models For Language Identification Thapelo Sindane Vukosi Marivate 24 1 0 11 Oct 2024
IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models David Ifeoluwa Adelani Jessica Ojo Israel Abebe Azime Jian Yun Zhuang Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi ... Salomey Osei Sokhar Samb Tadesse Kebede Guge Pontus Stenetorp Pontus Stenetorp ELM 65 7 0 05 Jun 2024
ANGOFA: Leveraging OFA Embedding Initialization and Synthetic Data for Angolan Language Model Osvaldo Luamba Quinjica David Ifeoluwa Adelani 35 0 0 03 Apr 2024
Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context Antoine Caubrière Elodie Gauthier 26 2 0 02 Apr 2024
EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation A. Tonja Israel Abebe Azime Tadesse Destaw Belay M. Yigezu Moges Ahmed Mehamed ... Olga Kolesnikova Philipp Slusallek Dietrich Klakow Shengwu Xiong Seid Muhie Yimam 51 5 0 20 Mar 2024
CLIcK: A Benchmark Dataset of Cultural and Linguistic Intelligence in Korean Eunsu Kim Juyoung Suk Philhoon Oh Haneul Yoo James Thorne Alice H. Oh ELM 72 15 0 11 Mar 2024
MaLA-500: Massive Language Adaptation of Large Language Models Peiqin Lin Shaoxiong Ji Jörg Tiedemann André F. T. Martins Hinrich Schütze ELM 31 15 0 24 Jan 2024
TransliCo: A Contrastive Learning Framework to Address the Script Barrier in Multilingual Pretrained Language Models Yihong Liu Chunlan Ma Haotian Ye Hinrich Schütze 30 1 0 12 Jan 2024
PuoBERTa: Training and evaluation of a curated language model for Setswana Vukosi Marivate Moseli Motsóehli Valencia Wagner Richard Lastrucci Isheanesu Dzingirai 30 8 0 13 Oct 2023
SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects David Ifeoluwa Adelani Hannah Liu Xiaoyu Shen Nikita Vassilyev Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Yanke Mao Haonan Gao Annie En-Shiun Lee ELM 38 60 0 14 Sep 2023
MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset Sneha Kudugunta Isaac Caswell Biao Zhang Xavier Garcia Christopher A. Choquette-Choo ... Derrick Xin Aditya Kusupati Romi Stella Ankur Bapna Orhan Firat 67 118 0 09 Sep 2023
NaijaRC: A Multi-choice Reading Comprehension Dataset for Nigerian Languages Anuoluwapo Aremu Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Daud Abolade Nkechinyere F. Aguobi Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad David Ifeoluwa Adelani 26 3 0 18 Aug 2023
Glot500: Scaling Multilingual Corpora and Language Models to 500 Languages Ayyoob Imani Peiqin Lin Amir Hossein Kargaran Silvia Severini Masoud Jalili Sabet ... Chunlan Ma Helmut Schmid André F. T. Martins François Yvon Hinrich Schütze ALM LRM 33 95 0 20 May 2023
Taxi1500: A Multilingual Dataset for Text Classification in 1500 Languages Chunlan Ma Ayyoob Imani Haotian Ye Renhao Pei Ehsaneddin Asgari Hinrich Schütze 27 23 0 15 May 2023
How Good are Commercial Large Language Models on African Languages? Jessica Ojo Kelechi Ogueji 26 5 0 11 May 2023
UBC-DLNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Impact of Transfer Learning on African Sentiment Analysis Gagan Bhatia Ife Adebara AbdelRahim Elmadany Muhammad Abdul-Mageed 29 1 0 21 Apr 2023
SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad Idris Abdulmumin Seid Muhie Yimam David Ifeoluwa Adelani I. Ahmad N. Ousidhoum A. Ayele Saif M. Mohammad Meriem Beloucif Sebastian Ruder 38 67 0 13 Apr 2023
Larger-Scale Transformers for Multilingual Masked Language Modeling Naman Goyal Jingfei Du Myle Ott Giridhar Anantharaman Alexis Conneau 90 98 0 02 May 2021
Diversity and Inclusion Metrics in Subset Selection Margaret Mitchell Dylan K. Baker Nyalleng Moorosi Emily L. Denton Ben Hutchinson A. Hanna Timnit Gebru Jamie Morgenstern FaML 150 85 0 09 Feb 2020