Papers by Millicent Ochieng

6 papers
Language Patterns and Behaviour of the Peer Supporters in Multilingual Healthcare Conversational Forums (2022.lrec-1)

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Challenge: a quantitative linguistic analysis of multilingual peer supporters in health-focused WhatsApp forums in Kenya is needed.
Approach: They conduct a quantitative linguistic analysis of the language usage patterns of multilingual peer supporters in two health-focused WhatsApp forums in Kenya.
Outcome: The proposed language analyzer can be used to analyze language usage patterns in two health-focused WhatsApp forums in Kenya.
MEGAVERSE: Benchmarking Large Language Models Across Languages, Modalities, Models and Tasks (2024.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Several new LLMs have been introduced necessitating their evaluation on non-English languages.
Approach: They perform a thorough evaluation of the non-English capabilities of SoTA LLMs by comparing them on the same set of multilingual datasets.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms models on multilingual datasets on 22 languages including low-resource African languages.
MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Large Large Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on many natural language processing tasks such as language understanding, reasoning, and language generation.
Approach: They present a framework for evaluating generative LLMs in the multilingual setting and provide directions for future progress in the field.
Outcome: The proposed framework evaluates generative models on 16 NLP datasets across 70 typologically diverse languages and compares them to state-of-the-art non-autoregressive models.
AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages (2024.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Recent advances in machine translation (MT) have focused on scaling multilingual machine translation models and evaluation data to hundreds of languages, including multiple under-resourced languages.
Approach: They propose to use n-gram matching metrics to measure progress in multilingual machine translation to 13 typologically diverse African languages to create high-quality human evaluation data with simplified MQM guidelines.
Outcome: The proposed metrics have a higher correlation with human judgments than n-gram matching metrics such as BLEU and METEOR.
IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) are limited to a few high-resource languages . many low-resourced languages are evaluated only on basic text classification tasks .
Approach: They propose to use IrokoBench to evaluate 17 low-resource African languages . they use human-translated benchmark datasets to evaluate zero-shot, few-shot and translate-test settings .
Outcome: The proposed model performs well in English and French, but the highest performing model perform poorly in proprietary models.

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