Orevaoghene Ahia

According to our database, Orevaoghene Ahia authored at least 35 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

IDIOLEX: Unified and Continuous Representations for Idiolectal and Stylistic Variation.

Anjali Kantharuban, Aarohi Srivastava, Fahim Faisal, Orevaoghene Ahia, Antonios Anastasopoulos, David Chiang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Graham Neubig

CoRR, April, 2026

Frame-Level Internal Tool Use for Temporal Grounding in Audio LMs.

Joesph An, Phillip Keung, Jiaqi Wang, Orevaoghene Ahia, Noah A. Smith

CoRR, February, 2026

BASS: Benchmarking Audio LMs for Musical Structure and Semantic Reasoning.

Min Jang, Orevaoghene Ahia, Nazif Tamer, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith

CoRR, February, 2026

2025

Cognitive Foundations for Reasoning and Their Manifestation in LLMs.

Priyanka Kargupta, Shuyue Stella Li, Haocheng Wang, Jinu Lee, Shan Chen, Orevaoghene Ahia, Dean Light, Thomas L. Griffiths, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jiawei Han, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yulia Tsvetkov

CoRR, November, 2025

FLEXITOKENS: Flexible Tokenization for Evolving Language Models.

Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar

CoRR, July, 2025

Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations.

Brian Siyuan Zheng, Alisa Liu, Orevaoghene Ahia, Jonathan Hayase, Yejin Choi, Noah A. Smith

CoRR, June, 2025

BLAB: Brutally Long Audio Bench.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Martijn Bartelds, Kabir Ahuja, Hila Gonen, Valentin Hofmann, Siddhant Arora, Shuyue Stella Li, Vishal Puttagunta, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Charishma Buchireddy, Ben Walls, Noah Bennett, Shinji Watanabe, Noah A. Smith, Yulia Tsvetkov, Sachin Kumar

CoRR, May, 2025

2024

MAGNET: Improving the Multilingual Fairness of Language Models with Adaptive Gradient-Based Tokenization.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar, Hila Gonen, Valentin Hoffman, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith

CoRR, 2024

DIALECTBENCH: A NLP Benchmark for Dialects, Varieties, and Closely-Related Languages.

Fahim Faisal, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aarohi Srivastava, Kabir Ahuja, David Chiang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Antonios Anastasopoulos

CoRR, 2024

MAGNET: Improving the Multilingual Fairness of Language Models with Adaptive Gradient-Based Tokenization.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar, Hila Gonen, Valentin Hofmann, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Extracting Lexical Features from Dialects via Interpretable Dialect Classifiers.

Roy Xie, Orevaoghene Ahia, Yulia Tsvetkov, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Short Papers, 2024

Teaching LLMs to Abstain across Languages via Multilingual Feedback.

Shangbin Feng, Weijia Shi, Yike Wang, Wenxuan Ding, Orevaoghene Ahia, Shuyue Stella Li, Vidhisha Balachandran, Sunayana Sitaram, Yulia Tsvetkov

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Voices Unheard: NLP Resources and Models for Yorùbá Regional Dialects.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Diana Abagyan, Hila Gonen, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Daud Abolade, Noah A. Smith, Yulia Tsvetkov

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

MYTE: Morphology-Driven Byte Encoding for Better and Fairer Multilingual Language Modeling.

Tomasz Limisiewicz, Terra Blevins, Hila Gonen, Orevaoghene Ahia, Luke Zettlemoyer

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

DIALECTBENCH: An NLP Benchmark for Dialects, Varieties, and Closely-Related Languages.

Fahim Faisal, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aarohi Srivastava, Kabir Ahuja, David Chiang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Antonios Anastasopoulos

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

Critical Learning Periods: Leveraging Early Training Dynamics for Efficient Data Pruning.

Everlyn Chimoto, Jay Gala, Orevaoghene Ahia, Julia Kreutzer, Bruce A. Bassett, Sara Hooker

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 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

LEXPLAIN: Improving Model Explanations via Lexicon Supervision.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Hila Gonen, Vidhisha Balachandran, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the The 12th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 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

Better Quality Pre-training Data and T5 Models for African Languages.

Akintunde Oladipo, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Odunayo Ogundepo, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jimmy Lin

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 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

That was the last straw, we need more: Are Translation Systems Sensitive to Disambiguating Context?

Jaechan Lee, Alisa Liu, Orevaoghene Ahia, Hila Gonen, Noah A. Smith

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

Do All Languages Cost the Same? Tokenization in the Era of Commercial Language Models.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Sachin Kumar, Hila Gonen, Jungo Kasai, David R. Mortensen, Noah A. Smith, Yulia Tsvetkov

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

2022

Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets.

Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang, Ahsan Wahab, Daan van Esch, Nasanbayar Ulzii-Orshikh, Allahsera Tapo, Nishant Subramani, Artem Sokolov, Claytone Sikasote, Monang Setyawan, Supheakmungkol Sarin, Sokhar Samb, Benoît Sagot, Clara Rivera, Annette Rios, Isabel Papadimitriou, Salomey Osei, Pedro Javier Ortiz Suárez, Iroro Orife, Kelechi Ogueji, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Toan Q. Nguyen, Mathias Müller, André Müller, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nanda Muhammad, Ayanda Mnyakeni, Jamshidbek Mirzakhalov, Tapiwanashe Matangira, Colin Leong, Nze Lawson, Sneha Kudugunta, Yacine Jernite, Mathias Jenny, Orhan Firat, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Sakhile Dlamini, Nisansa de Silva, Sakine Çabuk Balli, Stella Biderman, Alessia Battisti, Ahmed Baruwa, Ankur Bapna, Pallavi Baljekar, Israel Abebe Azime, Ayodele Awokoya, Duygu Ataman, Orevaoghene Ahia, Oghenefego Ahia, Sweta Agrawal, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 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

What a Creole Wants, What a Creole Needs.

Heather C. Lent, Kelechi Ogueji, Miryam de Lhoneux, Orevaoghene Ahia, Anders Søgaard

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Intriguing Properties of Compression on Multilingual Models.

Kelechi Ogueji, Orevaoghene Ahia, Gbemileke Onilude, Sebastian Gehrmann, Sara Hooker, Julia Kreutzer

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

The Low-Resource Double Bind: An Empirical Study of Pruning for Low-Resource Machine Translation.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Julia Kreutzer, Sara Hooker

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 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

Towards Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Baselines for Nigerian Pidgin.

Orevaoghene Ahia, Kelechi Ogueji

Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

Masakhane - Machine Translation For Africa.

Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing K. Sibanda, Daniel Whitenack, Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Salomon Kabongo, Musie Meressa, Espoir Murhabazi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Elan Van Biljon, Arshath Ramkilowan, Adewale Akinfaderin, Alp Öktem, Wole Akin, Ghollah Kioko, Kevin Degila, Herman Kamper, Bonaventure Dossou, Chris Emezue, Kelechi Ogueji, Abdallah Bashir

Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 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

PidginUNMT: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation from West African Pidgin to English.

Kelechi Ogueji, Orevaoghene Ahia

CoRR, 2019