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Ndapa Nakashole 🔊

Selected Publications

Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail
Ndapa Nakashole
ACL 2026
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🚀 This work enabled our first MT systems from English into four languages: Kwanyama, Oshindonga, Rukwangali, and Herero. None of these are supported in commercial MT systems.
Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama
Ndapa Nakashole
LREC 2026
1B, 3B, and 8B parameter LLMs for Kwanyama
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Typology-Guided Adaptation in Multilingual Models 🏆 Outstanding Paper
Ndapa Nakashole
ACL 2025
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On Linearizing Structured Data in Encoder-Decoder Language Models: Insights from Text-to-SQL
Yutong Shao, Ndapa Nakashole
NAACL 2024
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SYMPTOMIFY: Large-scale Symptom Recognition in post-Vaccine Reports
Bosung Kim, Ndapa Nakashole
EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
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Database-aware ASR Error Correction For Speech-to-SQL Parsing
Yutong Shao, Arun Kumar, Ndapa Nakashole
ICASSP 2023
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Data Augmentation for Rare Symptoms in Vaccine Side-Effect Detection
Bosung Kim, Ndapa Nakashole
BioNLP 2022
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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
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A Grounded Well-being Conversational Agent with Multiple Interaction Modes
Xinxin Yan, Ndapa Nakashole
NLP4PI @ ACL 2021
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NORMA: Neighborhood Sensitive Maps for Multilingual Word Embeddings
Ndapa Nakashole
EMNLP 2018
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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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DBLP Semantic Scholar