Ignatius Ezeani

According to our database, Ignatius Ezeani authored at least 23 papers between 2011 and 2023.

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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

Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives.

Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Ian N. Gregory, Erum Haris, Anthony G. Cohn, John G. Stell, Tim Cole, Joanna E. Taylor, David J. Bodenhamer, Neil Devadasan, Erik Steiner, Zephyr Frank, Jackie Olson

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, 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

Extracting Imprecise Geographical and Temporal References from Journey Narratives.

Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Ian N. Gregory

Proceedings of Text2Story, 2023

Igboner 2.0: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via Projection.

Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Paul Rayson, Ignatius Ezeani, Mo El-Haj, Doris Chinedu Asogwa, Chidimma Lilian Okpalla, Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, 2023

2022

Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems.

Ignatius Ezeani, Mahmoud El-Haj, Jonathan Morris, Dawn Knight

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

IgboBERT Models: Building and Training Transformer Models for the Igbo Language.

Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Mahmoud El-Haj

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 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

2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages.

Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Tajudeen Kolawole, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo, Salomey Osei, Sackey Freshia, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa, Mofe Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Jane Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan Van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Emezue, Bonaventure Dossou, Blessing K. Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir

CoRR, 2020

Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark.

Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Mark Hepple

Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

Infrastructure for Semantic Annotation in the Genomics Domain.

Mahmoud El-Haj, Nathan Rutherford, Matthew Coole, Ignatius Ezeani, Sheryl Prentice, Nancy Ide, Jo Knight, Scott Piao, John Mariani, Paul Rayson, Keith Suderman

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages.

Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Salomey Osei, Freshia Sackey, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa Berhe, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan Van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing K. Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

2019

Corpus-based approaches to Igbo diacritic restoration.

Ignatius Ezeani

PhD thesis, 2019

Toward an Effective Igbo Part-of-Speech Tagger.

Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Ignatius Ezeani

ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process., 2019

Bootstrapping Method for Developing Part-of-Speech Tagged Corpus in Low Resource Languages Tagset - A Focus on an African Igbo.

Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Ebele G. Onyedinma, Godwin E. Aniegwu, Ignatius Ezeani

CoRR, 2019

Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers.

Ignatius Ezeani, Scott Piao, Steven Neale, Paul Rayson, Dawn Knight

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, 2019

2018

A Basic Language Resource Kit Implementation for the Igbo<i>NLP</i> Project.

Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Chinedu Uchechukwu, Ignatius Ezeani

ACM Trans. Asian Low Resour. Lang. Inf. Process., 2018

Multi-task Projected Embedding for Igbo.

Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Chioma Enemuo

Proceedings of the Text, Speech, and Dialogue - 21st International Conference, 2018

Transferred Embeddings for Igbo Similarity, Analogy, and Diacritic Restoration Tasks.

Ignatius Ezeani, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Mark Hepple

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning, SemDeep@COLING 2018, 2018

Igbo Diacritic Restoration using Embedding Models.

Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe, Enemouh Chioma

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2016

Automatic Restoration of Diacritics for Igbo Language.

Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, Ikechukwu E. Onyenwe

Proceedings of the Text, Speech, and Dialogue - 19th International Conference, 2016

2011

Digital library deployment in a university: Challenges and prospects.

Chinwe Veronica Anunobi, Majesty Ignatius Ezeani

Libr. Hi Tech, 2011