David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Research Interests

Low-resource NLP (with focus on African languages)

Privacy

Computational Social Science

Selected Publications

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade 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 Muhammad, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Perez Ogayo, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Catherine Gitau, Derguene Mbaye, Jesujoba Alabi, Seid Muhie Yimam, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Ignatius Ezeani, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Jonathan Mukiibi, Verrah Otiende, Iroro Orife, Davis David, Samba Ngom, Tosin 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 Sibanda, Orevaoghene Ahia, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Kelechi Ogueji, Thierno Ibrahima DIOP, Abdoulaye Diallo, Adewale Akinfaderin, Tendai Marengereke, Salomey Osei.
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
In Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL). 2021 (To Appear).

David I. Adelani, Dana Ruiter, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Damilola Adebonojo, Adesina Ayeni, Mofe Adeyemi, Ayodele Awokoya, Cristina España-Bonet
The Effect of Domain and Diacritics in Yorùbá–English Neural Machine Translation
In MT Summit 2021

Michael A. Hedderich, David Adelani, Dawei Zhu, Jesujoba Alabi, Udia Markus, Dietrich Klakow
Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages
In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ali Davody, Thomas Kleinbauer, and Dietrich Klakow
Privacy Guarantees for De-identifying Text Transformations
In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH), October 26-29, 2020.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Haotian Mai, Fuming Fang, Huy H. Nguyen, Junichi Yamagishi, Isao Echizen
Generating Sentiment-Preserving Fake Online Reviews Using Neural Language Models and Their Human- and Machine-based Detection.
In the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2020)

Zijian Wang, Scott Hale, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Timo Hartmann, Fabian Flöck and David Jurgens
Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the Web Conference [Best Poster Presentation Award]

Teaching

Summer 2017: Statistical Natural Language Processing TA

Winter 2017/2018: Neural Networks: Implementation and Applications TA

Students

June 2019 – Aug 2020: Aleena Thomas — Masters Thesis on “Prevention of Unintended Memorization in Word Embeddings using Differential Privacy”. Some parts of the thesis published at the TSD 2020 conference

For more information, please visit my personal page dadelani.github.io