Papers by Dren Fazlija
TIGQA: An Expert-Annotated Question-Answering Dataset in Tigrinya (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing annotated datasets for NLP tasks in languages with limited resources are limited. |
| Approach: | They propose to use machine translation to convert existing Tigrinya dataset into a Tigrina dataset in SQuAD format. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is an expert-annotated Tigrinya dataset with 2,685 question-answer pairs covering 122 diverse topics. |
MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Ge’ez Script Languages (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Subword-based tokenization methods fail to preserve morphological boundaries, a limitation especially pronounced in low-resource, morphology complex languages such as those written in the Ge‘ez script. |
| Approach: | They propose a tokenizer that integrates supervised morphological analysis into the subword vocabulary and propose morpheme-based tokenization with Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokens. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tokenizer preserves morphological integrity while maintaining lexical meaning. |
ACCESS DENIED INC: The First Benchmark Environment for Sensitivity Awareness (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models can process text from various document formats and facilitate user interactions through natural language queries. |
| Approach: | They propose a concept of sensitivity awareness (SA) which enables LLMs to adhere to predefined access rights rules. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can adhere to predefined access rights rules while managing unauthorized requests while effectively addressing legitimate queries. |