David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Biographie

David Adelani est professeur adjoint en science informatique et lutte contre les inégalités à l’Université McGill, et membre académique principal à Mila – Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle. Ses recherches se concentrent sur le traitement multilingue du langage naturel, avec un accent particulier sur les langues sous-dotées en ressources.

Étudiants actuels

Jonah Dauvet

Stagiaire de recherche - McGill

Senyu Li Li

Doctorat - McGill

Sifan Liu

Stagiaire de recherche - McGill

Jessica Ojo

Maîtrise recherche - McGill

Fabian Schmidt

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

McGill

Vivek Verma

Maîtrise professionnelle - UdeM

tianyi.xu2@mail.mcgill.ca

Tianyi Xu Xu

Stagiaire de recherche - McGill

Peter Yu

Maîtrise recherche - McGill

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Publications

Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead

Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi

Michael A. Hedderich

Dietrich Klakow

2025-05-27

ArXiv (prépublication)

Improving Multilingual Math Reasoning for African Languages

Odunayo Ogundepo

Akintunde Oladipo

Kelechi Ogueji

Esther Adenuga

Jimmy Lin

Researchers working on low-resource languages face persistent challenges due to limited data availability and restricted access to computati… (voir plus)onal resources. Although most large language models (LLMs) are predominantly trained in high-resource languages, adapting them to low-resource contexts, particularly African languages, requires specialized techniques. Several strategies have emerged for adapting models to low-resource languages in todays LLM landscape, defined by multi-stage pre-training and post-training paradigms. However, the most effective approaches remain uncertain. This work systematically investigates which adaptation strategies yield the best performance when extending existing LLMs to African languages. We conduct extensive experiments and ablation studies to evaluate different combinations of data types (translated versus synthetically generated), training stages (pre-training versus post-training), and other model adaptation configurations. Our experiments focuses on mathematical reasoning tasks, using the Llama 3.1 model family as our base model.

2025-05-26

ArXiv (prépublication)

The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages

Chris Emezue

The NaijaVoices Community

Busayo Awobade

Abraham Owodunni

Handel Emezue

Gloria Monica Tobechukwu Emezue

N. N. Emezue

Sewade Ogun

Bunmi Akinremi

Chris Pal

2025-05-26

ArXiv (prépublication)

Lugha-Llama: Adapting Large Language Models for African Languages

Happy Buzaaba

Alexander Wettig

Christiane Fellbaum

2025-04-09

ArXiv (prépublication)

Lugha-Llama: Adapting Large Language Models for African Languages

Happy Buzaaba

Alexander Wettig

Christiane Fellbaum

2025-04-01

arXiv (publié)

SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

Nedjma OUSIDHOUM

Idris Abdulmumin

Seid Muhie Yimam

Jan Philip Wahle

Terry Lima Ruas

Meriem Beloucif

Christine de Kock

Tadesse Belay

Ibrahim Ahmad

Nirmal Surange

Daniela Teodorescu

Alham Fikri Aji

Felermino Ali

Vladimir Araujo

Abinew Ayele

Oana Ignat

Alexander Panchenko

Yi Zhou … (voir 1 de plus)

Saif M. Mohammad

2025-03-10

ArXiv (prépublication)

SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

Nedjma OUSIDHOUM

Idris Abdulmumin

Seid Muhie Yimam

Jan Philip Wahle

Terry Lima Ruas

Meriem Beloucif

Christine de Kock

Tadesse Belay

Ibrahim Ahmad

Nirmal Surange

Daniela Teodorescu

Alham Fikri Aji

Felermino Ali

Vladimir Araujo

Abinew Ayele

Oana Ignat

Alexander Panchenko

Yi Zhou … (voir 1 de plus)

Saif M. Mohammad

2025-03-01

arXiv (publié)

Multilingual Language Model Pretraining using Machine-translated Data

Jiayi Wang

Yao Lu

Maurice Weber

Max Ryabinin

Yihong Chen

Raphael Tang

Pontus Stenetorp

2025-02-18

ArXiv (prépublication)

Multilingual Language Model Pretraining using Machine-translated Data

Jiayi Wang

Yao Lu

Maurice Weber

Max Ryabinin

Yihong Chen

Raphael Tang

Pontus Stenetorp

2025-02-18

ArXiv (prépublication)

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

Nedjma OUSIDHOUM

Idris Abdulmumin

Jan Philip Wahle

Terry Lima Ruas

Meriem Beloucif

Christine de Kock

Nirmal Surange

Daniela Teodorescu

Ibrahim Ahmad

Alham Fikri Aji

Felermino Ali

Ilseyar Alimova

Vladimir Araujo

Nikolay Babakov

Naomi Baes

Ana-Maria Bucur

Andiswa Bukula

Guanqun Cao … (voir 28 de plus)

Rodrigo Tufino Cardenas

Rendi Chevi

Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke

Alexandra Ciobotaru

Daryna Dementieva

Murja Sani Gadanya

Robert Geislinger

Bela Gipp

Oumaima Hourrane

Oana Ignat

Falalu Lawan

Rooweither Mabuya

Rahmad Mahendra

Vukosi Marivate

Andrew Piper

Alexander Panchenko

Charles Henrique Porto Ferreira

Vitaly Protasov

Samuel Rutunda

Manish Shrivastava

Aura Cristina Udrea

Lilian D. A. Wanzare

Sophie Wu

Florian Valentin Wunderlich

Hanif Muhammad Zhafran

Tianhui Zhang

Yi Zhou

Saif M. Mohammad

2025-02-17

ArXiv (prépublication)

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

Nedjma OUSIDHOUM

Idris Abdulmumin

Jan Philip Wahle

Terry Lima Ruas

Meriem Beloucif

Christine de Kock

Nirmal Surange

Daniela Teodorescu

Ibrahim Ahmad

Alham Fikri Aji

Felermino Ali

Ilseyar Alimova

Vladimir Araujo

Nikolay Babakov

Naomi Baes

Ana-Maria Bucur

Andiswa Bukula

Guanqun Cao … (voir 28 de plus)

Rodrigo Tufino Cardenas

Rendi Chevi

Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke

Alexandra Ciobotaru

Daryna Dementieva

Murja Sani Gadanya

Robert Geislinger

Bela Gipp

Oumaima Hourrane

Oana Ignat

Falalu Lawan

Rooweither Mabuya

Rahmad Mahendra

Vukosi Marivate

Andrew Piper

Alexander Panchenko

Charles Henrique Porto Ferreira

Vitaly Protasov

Samuel Rutunda

Manish Shrivastava

Aura Cristina Udrea

Lilian D. A. Wanzare

Sophie Wu

Florian Valentin Wunderlich

Hanif Muhammad Zhafran

Tianhui Zhang

Yi Zhou

Saif M. Mohammad

2025-02-17

ArXiv (prépublication)

Warmup Generations: A Task-Agnostic Approach for Guiding Sequence-to-Sequence Learning with Unsupervised Initial State Generation

Senyu Li

Zipeng Sun

Jiayi Wang

Xue (Steve) Liu

Pontus Stenetorp

Siva Reddy

2025-02-17

ArXiv (prépublication)