Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets

no code implementations • 12 Feb 2024 • Israel Abebe Azime, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Mitiku Yohannes Fuge, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Eyasu Shiferaw Jada, Yonas Chanie, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Seid Muhie Yimam

We compile an Amharic instruction fine-tuning dataset and fine-tuned LLaMA-2-Amharic model.

Language Modelling

Creating Spoken Dialog Systems in Ultra-Low Resourced Settings

no code implementations • 11 Dec 2023 • Moayad ElAmin, Muhammad Omer, Yonas Chanie, Henslaac Ndlovu

We build on existing light models for intent classification in Flemish, and our main contribution is applying different augmentation techniques on two levels -- the voice level, and the phonetic transcripts level -- to the existing models to counter the problem of scarce labeled data in low-resource languages.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5