Papers
BiCon-Gate: Consistency-Gated De-colloquialisation for Dialogue Fact-Checking
Hyunkyung Park, Arkaitz Zubiaga
The Energy of Falsehood: Detecting Hallucinations via Diffusion Model Likelihoods
Arpit Singh Gautam, Kailash Talreja, Saurabh Jha
Evidence Grounding vs. Memorization: Why Neural Semantics Matter for Knowledge Graph Fact Verification
Ankit Kumar Upadhyay, John S. Erickson, Deborah L. McGuinness
POaaS: Minimal-Edit Prompt Optimization as a Service to Lift Accuracy and Cut Hallucinations on On-Device sLLMs
Jungwoo Shim, Dae Won Kim, Sunwook Kim et al.
Weakly-supervised Argument Mining with Boundary Refinement and Relation Denoising
Wei Sun, Mingxiao Li, Jesse Davis et al.
AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African Languages
Yasmin Moslem, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Amanuel Gizachew Abebe
Using Subword-Embeddings for Bilingual Lexicon Induction in Bantu Languages
Adrian Breiding, Alan Akbik
Eyaa-Tom 26, Yodi-Mantissa and Lom Bench: A Community Benchmark for TTS in Local Languages
Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Messan Agbobli et al.
Enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Maternal and Reproductive Health: Fine-Tuning and Real-World Evaluation in Wolof
Ertony Basilwango, Yann Le Beux, Oche David Ankeli et al.
Where Are We at with Automatic Speech Recognition for the Bambara Language?
Seydou Diallo, Yacouba Diarra, Panga Azazia Kamaté et al.
Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic Dialect
Hadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired Learners
Kausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde et al.
Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI Evaluation
Anuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion et al.
SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan Languages
Solomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma et al.
Real-Time Spoken Instruction Following and Translation in Ugandan Languages
Benjamin Akera, Tim Wenjie Hu, Patrick Walukagga et al.
Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small
Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Hadiza Ali Umar et al.
Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara
Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.
Morphologically-informed Somali Lemmatization Corpus built with a Web-based Crowdsourcing Platform
Abdifatah Ahmed Gedi, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Yusuf A. Yusuf et al.
Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAG
Grace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoa
Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African Languages
Hiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuat
Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Advancing African NLP: UDMorph and flexiPipe
Maarten Janssen
Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Low-Resource Swahili Sentiment Analysis: Multi-LLM Judging with Human Validation
Samuel Gyamfi, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Yankı Öztürk et al.
EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum Education
Israel Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmy