Dr Ignatius Ezeani
Research FellowPhD Supervision Interests
LowResNLP: Tools and methods for effective processing of low-resource languages especially African languages.
Selected Publications
Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark
Ezeani, I., Rayson, P., Onyenwe, I.E., Chinedu, U., Hepple, M. 1/04/2020
Conference paper
Infrastructure for Semantic Annotation in the Genomics Domain
El-Haj, M., Rutherford, N., Coole, M., Ezeani, I., Prentice, S., Ide, N., Knight, J., Piao, S., Mariani, J., Rayson, P., Suderman, K. 11/05/2020
Conference contribution/Paper
Leveraging Pre-Trained Embeddings for Welsh Taggers
Ezeani, I., Piao, S., Neale, S., Rayson, P., Knight, D. 2/08/2019
Conference contribution/Paper
Toward an effective Igbo part-of-speech tagger
Onyenwe, I.E., Hepple, M., Chinedu, U., Ezeani, I. 31/08/2019 In: ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP). 18, 4, 26 p.
Journal article
Automatic Restoration of Diacritics for Igbo Language
Ezeani, I., Hepple, M., Onyenwe, I., Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. 1/01/2016
Conference contribution/Paper
Multi-task projected embedding for igbo
Ezeani, I., Hepple, M., Onyenwe, I., Enemuo, C. 8/09/2018
Conference contribution/Paper
All Publications
Welsh Summary Creator
01/05/2021 → 01/05/2022
Research
The Igbo-English Machine Translation Project
03/02/2020 → 29/01/2021
Research
Spatial Humanities: Finding spatial and time narratives in corpus data
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
BlackinAI Meet-Up at ICLR2020
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
International Conference on Representation Learning 2020
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
3rd Black-in-AI Workshop @ NeurIPS2019
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Using CorCenCC: Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes – National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Data Science Africa Summer School, Abuja, Nigeria
Invited talk
SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
- SCC (Data Science)
- UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language