| Beyond the imitation game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models A Srivastava, A Rastogi, A Rao, AAM Shoeb, A Abid, A Fisch, AR Brown, ... Transactions on machine learning research, 2023 | 2213 | 2023 |
| MasakhaNER: Named entity recognition for African languages DI Adelani, J Abbott, G Neubig, D D’souza, J Kreutzer, C Lignos, ... Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 9, 1116-1131, 2021 | 210* | 2021 |
| Adapting pre-trained language models to African languages via multilingual adaptive fine-tuning J Alabi, DI Adelani, M Mosbach, D Klakow Proceedings of the 29th international conference on computational …, 2022 | 186 | 2022 |
| SIB-200: A simple, inclusive, and big evaluation dataset for topic classification in 200+ languages and dialects DI Adelani, H Liu, X Shen, N Vassilyev, J Alabi, Y Mao, H Gao, ESA Lee Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the …, 2024 | 116 | 2024 |
| A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation D Ifeoluwa Adelani, J Oluwadara Alabi, A Fan, J Kreutzer, X Shen, M Reid, ... arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2205.02022, 2022 | 91* | 2022 |
| Massive vs. curated embeddings for low-resourced languages: the case of Yorùbá and Twi J Alabi, K Amponsah-Kaakyire, DI Adelani, C España-Bonet Proceedings of the twelfth language resources and evaluation conference …, 2020 | 72* | 2020 |
| Transfer learning and distant supervision for multilingual transformer models: A study on African languages MA Hedderich, DI Adelani, D Zhu, J Alabi, U Markus, D Klakow Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language …, 2020 | 70 | 2020 |
| Masakhaner 2.0: Africa-centric transfer learning for named entity recognition DI Adelani, G Neubig, S Ruder, S Rijhwani, M Beukman, C Palen-Michel, ... Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language …, 2022 | 60 | 2022 |
| Uniqorn: unified question answering over rdf knowledge graphs and natural language text S Pramanik, J Alabi, RS Roy, G Weikum Journal of Web Semantics 83, 100833, 2024 | 56 | 2024 |
| Masakhanews: News topic classification for african languages DI Adelani, M Masiak, IA Azime, J Alabi, AL Tonja, C Mwase, O Ogundepo, ... Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language …, 2023 | 54 | 2023 |
| The Effect of Domain and Diacritics in Yor\ub\'a-English Neural Machine Translation DI Adelani, D Ruiter, JO Alabi, D Adebonojo, A Ayeni, M Adeyemi, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08647, 2021 | 52* | 2021 |
| Bibletts: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely african speech corpus J Meyer, DI Adelani, E Casanova, A Öktem, DWJ Weber, S Kabongo, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03546, 2022 | 29 | 2022 |
| Irokobench: A new benchmark for african languages in the age of large language models DI Adelani, J Ojo, IA Azime, JY Zhuang, J Alabi, X He, M Ochieng, ... Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of …, 2025 | 28 | 2025 |
| Afriqa: Cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering for african languages O Ogundepo, TR Gwadabe, CE Rivera, JH Clark, S Ruder, DI Adelani, ... Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 14957 …, 2023 | 22 | 2023 |
| Masakhapos: Part-of-speech tagging for typologically diverse african languages CMB Dione, DI Adelani, P Nabende, J Alabi, T Sindane, H Buzaaba, ... Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational …, 2023 | 15 | 2023 |
| The impact of demonstrations on multilingual in-context learning: A multidimensional analysis M Zhang, V Gautam, M Wang, J Alabi, X Shen, D Klakow, M Mosbach Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 7342-7371, 2024 | 14 | 2024 |
| NaijaRC: A Multi-choice Reading Comprehension Dataset for Nigerian Languages A Aremu, JO Alabi, D Abolade, NF Aguobi, SH Muhammad, DI Adelani 5th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, 2024 | 9* | 2024 |
| Separating grains from the chaff: Using data filtering to improve multilingual translation for low-resourced African languages I Abdulmumin, M Beukman, J Alabi, CC Emezue, E Chimoto, T Adewumi, ... Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 1001-1014, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Uhura: A benchmark for evaluating scientific question answering and truthfulness in low-resource african languages E Bayes, IA Azime, JO Alabi, J Kgomo, T Eloundou, E Proehl, K Chen, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00948, 2024 | 8 | 2024 |
| AfriHuBERT: A self-supervised speech representation model for African languages JO Alabi, X Liu, D Klakow, J Yamagishi arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.20201, 2024 | 8 | 2024 |
David Ifeoluwa AdelaniMcGill University and Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Canada CIFAR AI ChairVerified email at mila.quebec
