Talks and presentations

- Oct 10, 2025 Text quality Issues and their Impact on NLP for Low-Resource Languages at WMDQS Workshop at COLM 2025

- Jul 29, 2025 INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages at ACL 2025, Vienna

- Jun 19, 2025 Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages at AICan 2025

- May 04, 2025 Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages at LM4UC Workshop at NAACL 2025, Bloomberg, AI Summer School Morocco, and Princeton

- April 29, 2025 IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models (Outstanding Paper) at NAACL 2025, New Mexico

- Feb 26, 2025 Natural Language Processing for Under-resourced African Languages: The challenges at AIStellars PAIDeF, Nigeria

- Dec 05, 2024 Developing Language Technologies for African and Creole languages at Bellairs, Barbados 50th Anniversary

- May 3, 2024 How good are Large Language Models on African Languages? at EAAMO_MD4SDG Slides PDF

- Mar 19, 2024 SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects at EACL 2024, Malta

- Nov 03, 2023 MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages (Area Chair Award) at IJCNLP-AACL, Bali

- Nov 01, 2023 Social NLP for low-resource languages at Social NLP Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL, Bali

- Jul, 11 2023 MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African languages at ACL, Toronto

- Jun, 27 2023 Natural language processing for African languages PhD Thesis at Saarbrueken

- Apr 30, 2023 NLP for under-resourced African languages at AI Saturday Lagos. Slides PDF

- Apr 06, 2023 NLP for under-resourced African languages (Cohere video) at CMU, Cohere, McGill, Google DeepMind. Slides PDF

- Dec 03, 2022 Cross-lingual Transfer for Named Entity Recognition: A study on African Languages at the TL4NLP Workshop @NeurIPS 2022 (Invited talk)

- Jul 14, 2022 Multilingual Language Model Adaptive Fine-Tuning: A Study on African Languages at the Deeplo Workshop @NAACL 2022 (Invited talk)

- Jul 11, 2022 A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation at NAACL 2022 (Oral)

- Nov 8, 2021 MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages at EMNLP 2021 (Oral: presented by several authors)

- Apr 19, 2021 MENYO-20k: A Multi-domain English-Yorùbá Corpus for Machine Translation and Domain Adaptation at the AfricaNLP Workshop @EACL 2021

- Apr 19, 2021 MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages at the AfricaNLP Workshop @EACL 2021

- Mar 26, 2021 MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages at the LTI Colloquium in CMU

- Oct 29, 2020 Privacy guarantees for dee identifying text transformation at Interspeech 2020

- Sep 23, 2020 Development of NLP datasets and models for African Languages at NLP with Friends

- Jul 7, 2020 Sentiment Preserving Fake Reviews with Data Skeptic

- Jul 3, 2020 Ensuring good text quality in African Language Datasets at the AI4D Africa Webinar Series: Making NLP work in Africa – with an introduction to the GIZ AI4D African Language Dataset Challenge

- Apr 26, 2020 Improving Yorùbá Diacritic Restoration at the AfricaNLP Workshop @ICLR 2020

- Apr 26, 2020 Distant Supervision and Noisy Label Learning for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition: A Study on Hausa and Yorùbá at the AfricaNLP Workshop @ICLR 2020