Research | Ndapa Nakashole

Selected Publications

Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail

Ndapa Nakashole

ACL 2026

Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama

Ndapa Nakashole

LREC 2026

1B, 3B, and 8B parameter LLMs for Kwanyama · Available on Hugging Face

Typology-Guided Adaptation in Multilingual Models 🏆 Outstanding Paper

Ndapa Nakashole

ACL 2025

On Linearizing Structured Data in Encoder-Decoder Language Models: Insights from Text-to-SQL

Yutong Shao, Ndapa Nakashole

NAACL 2024

SYMPTOMIFY: Large-scale Symptom Recognition in post-Vaccine Reports

Bosung Kim, Ndapa Nakashole

EMNLP 2023 (Findings)

Database-aware ASR Error Correction For Speech-to-SQL Parsing

Yutong Shao, Arun Kumar, Ndapa Nakashole

ICASSP 2023

Data Augmentation for Rare Symptoms in Vaccine Side-Effect Detection

Bosung Kim, Ndapa Nakashole

BioNLP 2022

A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole

ACL 2021

A Grounded Well-being Conversational Agent with Multiple Interaction Modes

Xinxin Yan, Ndapa Nakashole

NLP4PI @ ACL 2021

PATTY: A Taxonomy of Relational Patterns with Semantic Types 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up

Ndapa Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian Suchanek

EMNLP 2012