Happy Buzaaba

According to our database, Happy Buzaaba authored at least 16 papers between 2019 and 2025.

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2025

Lugha-Llama: Adapting Large Language Models for African Languages.

Happy Buzaaba, Alexander Wettig, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Christiane Fellbaum

CoRR, April, 2025

INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages.

Hao Yu, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Andiswa Bukula, Jian Yun Zhuang, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Israel Abebe Azime, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Juliet W. Murage, Dietrich Klakow, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

CoRR, February, 2025

IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, Jian Yun Zhuang, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Xuanli He, Millicent Ochieng, Sara Hooker, Andiswa Bukula, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Foutse Yuehgoh, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Sokhar Samb, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Tombekai Vangoni Sherman, Pontus Stenetorp

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages.

Hao Yu, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Andiswa Bukula, Jian Yun Zhuang, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Israel Abebe Azime, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing Kudzaishe Sibanda, Godson Koffi Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Dietrich Klakow, David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, Jian Yun Zhuang, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Xuanli He, Millicent Ochieng, Sara Hooker, Andiswa Bukula, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Godson Kalipe, Jonathan Mukiibi, Salomon Kabongo, Foutse Yuehgoh, Mmasibidi Setaka, Lolwethu Ndolela, Nkiruka Odu, Rooweither Mabuya, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomey Osei, Sokhar Samb, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Pontus Stenetorp

CoRR, 2024

2023

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages.

Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera, Jonathan H. Clark, Sebastian Ruder, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Abdou Aziz Diop, Claytone Sikasote, Gilles Hacheme, Happy Buzaaba, Ignatius Ezeani, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Emezue, Albert Njoroge Kahira, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Clemencia Siro, Steven Arthur, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Oyinkansola Awosan, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Bernard Opoku, Awokoya Ayodele, Verrah Otiende, Christine Mwase, Boyd Sinkala, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Daniel A. Ajisafe, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Habib Mbow, Emile Niyomutabazi, Eunice Mukonde, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Martin Namukombo, Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu, Mofya Phiri, Neo Putini, Ndumiso Mngoma, Priscilla A. Amuok, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo

CoRR, 2023

AfriWOZ: Corpus for Exploiting Cross-Lingual Transfer for Dialogue Generation in Low-Resource, African Languages.

Tosin P. Adewumi, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Bukola Peters, Happy Buzaaba, Oyerinde Samuel, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Benjamin Ajibade, Tajudeen Gwadabe, Mory Moussou Koulibaly Traore, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ahmed Baruwa, Paul Owoicho, Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí, Phylis Ngigi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir, Foteini Liwicki, Marcus Liwicki

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2023

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages.

Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Clara Rivera, Jonathan H. Clark, Sebastian Ruder, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Bonaventure Dossou, Abdou Aziz Diop, Claytone Sikasote, Gilles Hacheme, Happy Buzaaba, Ignatius Ezeani, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Emezue, Albert Kahira, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Ayodele Awokoya, Bernard Opoku, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Christine Mwase, Clemencia Siro, Stephen Arthur, Tunde Ajayi, Verrah Otiende, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Boyd Sinkala, Daniel A. Ajisafe, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Chinedu E. Mbonu, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Mofya Phiri, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African languages.

Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Peter Nabende, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Thapelo Sindane, Happy Buzaaba, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Perez Ogayo, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jonathan Mukiibi, Blessing K. Sibanda, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Victoire Memdjokam Koagne, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Amelia V. Taylor, Godson Kalipe, Tebogo Macucwa, Vukosi Marivate, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Elvis Mboning Tchiaze, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Gratien Atindogbe, Tolulope Anu Adelani, Idris Akinade, Samuel Olanrewaju, Marien Nahimana, Théogène Musabeyezu, Emile Niyomutabazi, Ester Chimhenga, Kudzai Gotosa, Patrick Mizha, Apelete Agbolo, Seydou Traore, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Aliyu Yusuf, Muhammad Abdullahi, Dietrich Klakow

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

Ìtàkúròso: Exploiting Cross-Lingual Transferability for Natural Language Generation of Dialogues in Low-Resource, African Languages.

Tosin P. Adewumi, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Bukola Peters, Happy Buzaaba, Samuel Oyerinde, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Benjamin Ajibade, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Mory Moussou Koulibaly Traore, Tunde Ajayi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ahmed Baruwa, Paul Owoicho, Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí, Phylis Ngigi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir, Foteini Liwicki, Marcus Liwicki

CoRR, 2022

A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Angela Fan, Julia Kreutzer, Xiaoyu Shen, Machel Reid, Dana Ruiter, Dietrich Klakow, Peter Nabende, Ernie Chang, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Freshia Sackey, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris Emezue, Colin Leong, Michael Beukman, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Guyo Dub Jarso, Oreen Yousuf, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Gilles Hacheme, Eric Peter Wairagala, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Benjamin Ajibade, Tunde Ajayi, Yvonne Wambui Gitau, Jade Z. Abbott, Mohamed Ahmed, Millicent Ochieng, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Perez Ogayo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Godson Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Victoire Memdjokam Koagne, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Valencia Wagner, Idris Abdulmumin, Ayodele Awokoya, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Andiswa Bukula, Sam Manthalu

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder, Shruti Rijhwani, Michael Beukman, Chester Palen-Michel, Constantine Lignos, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Peter Nabende, Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing K. Sibanda, Happy Buzaaba, Jonathan Mukiibi, Godson Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Amelia V. Taylor, Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Perez Ogayo, Catherine Gitau, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Victoire Memdjokam Koagne, Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Tebogo Macucwa, Vukosi Marivate, Elvis Mboning, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Tosin P. Adewumi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Neo L. Mokono, Ignatius Ezeani, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gilles Hacheme, Idris Abdulmumin, Odunayo Ogundepo, Oreen Yousuf, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Dietrich Klakow

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

2021

MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Z. Abbott, Graham Neubig, Daniel D'souza, Julia Kreutzer, Constantine Lignos, Chester Palen-Michel, Happy Buzaaba, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Ruder, Stephen Mayhew, Israel Abebe Azime, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Perez Ogayo, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Ignatius Ezeani, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Verrah Otiende, Iroro Orife, Davis David, Samba Ngom, Tosin P. Adewumi, Paul Rayson, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gerald Muriuki, Emmanuel Anebi, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Nkiruka Odu, Eric Peter Wairagala, Samuel Oyerinde, Clemencia Siro, Tobius Saul Bateesa, Temilola Oloyede, Yvonne Wambui, Victor Akinode, Deborah Nabagereka, Maurice Katusiime, Ayodele Awokoya, Mouhamadane Mboup, Dibora Gebreyohannes, Henok Tilaye, Kelechi Nwaike, Degaga Wolde, Abdoulaye Faye, Blessing K. Sibanda, Orevaoghene Ahia, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Kelechi Ogueji, Thierno Ibrahima Diop, Abdoulaye Diallo, Adewale Akinfaderin, Tendai Marengereke, Salomey Osei

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2021

Question Answering Over Knowledge Base: A Scheme for Integrating Subject and the Identified Relation to Answer Simple Questions.

Happy Buzaaba, Toshiyuki Amagasa

SN Comput. Sci., 2021

A Scheme for Efficient Question Answering with Low Dimension Reconstructed Embeddings.

Happy Buzaaba, Toshiyuki Amagasa

Proceedings of the iiWAS2021: The 23rd International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence, Linz, Austria, 29 November 2021, 2021

2019

A Modular Approach for Efficient Simple Question Answering Over Knowledge Base.

Happy Buzaaba, Toshiyuki Amagasa

Proceedings of the Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2019