Papers by Maria Gini
AfriMMT-EA: Multi-domain Machine Translation for Low-Resource East African Languages (2026.findings-eacl)
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Naome A Etori, Kelechi Ezema, Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Davis David, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Elisha Ondieki Makori, Michael Samwel Mollel, Maria Gini
| Challenge: | Recent advances in open-source large language models have demonstrated strong multilingual capabilities through data-efficient adaptation strategies. |
| Approach: | They propose to use AfriMMT-EA to refine two multilingual versions of Gemma-3 to better understand the region's linguistic and cultural diversity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed datasets comprise 54 local languages across five East African countries. |
Conversational Agent for Daily Living Assessment Coaching Demo (2021.eacl-demos)
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| Challenge: | Conversational Agent for Daily Living Assessment Coaching (CADLAC) is a multi-modal conversational agent system designed to impersonate “individuals” with various levels of ability in activities of daily living. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a multi-modal conversational agent system to impersonate individuals with various levels of ability in activities of daily living to train assessors how to conduct interviews . |
| Outcome: | The system is implemented on the MindMeld platform for conversational AI and features a bidirectional long short-term memory topic tracker that allows the agent to navigate conversations spanning 18 different ADL domains. |