Research | Ndapa Nakashole

Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail

Ndapa Nakashole

ACL 2026

🚀 This work is a major component of the project that led to the first usable English–Kwanyama MT system.

Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Oshikwanyama

Ndapa Nakashole

LREC 2026

1B, 3B, and 8B parameter LLMs for Oshikwanyama

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

NORMA: Neighborhood Sensitive Maps for Multilingual Word Embeddings

Ndapa Nakashole

EMNLP 2018

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

Ndapa Nakashole, Gerhard Weikum, Fabian Suchanek

EMNLP 2012

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