Papers by Derguene Mbaye

5 papers
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages (2021.tacl-1)

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Challenge: (2020) African languages are underrepresented in existing natural language processing datasets, research, and tools due to lack of datasets and reproducible results.
Approach: They propose to create a dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages.
Outcome: The results of the first large dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages are released to inform future research on African NLP.
Task-Oriented Dialog Systems for the Senegalese Wolof Language (2025.coling-main)

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Challenge: Low-resource languages such as African ones are underrepresented in large language models limiting their performance in these languages.
Approach: They propose a chatbot generation engine based on the Rasa framework and a method for projecting annotations onto the Wolof language using an in-house machine translation system.
Outcome: The proposed approach performs similarly to the one obtained for French, which is a resource-rich language.

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