UIO at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Multilingual fine-tuning for sentiment classification in low-resource Languages
Egil Rønningstad
The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023) Task 12: afrisenti-semeval: sentiment analysis for low-resource african languages using twitter dataset Paper
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Our contribution to the 2023 AfriSenti-SemEval shared task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages, provides insight into how a multilingual large language model can be a resource for sentiment analysis in languages not seen during pretraining. The shared task provides datasets of a variety o
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Abstract:
Our contribution to the 2023 AfriSenti-SemEval shared task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages, provides insight into how a multilingual large language model can be a resource for sentiment analysis in languages not seen during pretraining. The shared task provides datasets of a variety of African languages from different language families. The languages are to various degrees related to languages used during pretraining, and the language data contain various degrees of code-switching. We experiment with both monolingual and multilingual datasets for the final fine-tuning, and find that with the provided datasets that contain samples in the thousands, monolingual fine-tuning yields the best results.