AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18247v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:06:33 GMT
• Title: AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text
• Authors: Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam,
• Abstract summary: Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) built from various sources are the foundation of today's NLP progress.<n>We explore a thorough analysis of domain and task adaptive continual pretraining approaches for low-resource African languages.<n>We create AfriSocial, a corpus designed for domain adaptive finetuning that passes through quality pre-processing steps.
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• Abstract: Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) built from various sources are the foundation of today's NLP progress. Language representations learned by such models achieve strong performance across many tasks with datasets of varying sizes drawn from various sources. We explore a thorough analysis of domain and task adaptive continual pretraining approaches for low-resource African languages and a promising result is shown for the evaluated tasks. We create AfriSocial, a corpus designed for domain adaptive finetuning that passes through quality pre-processing steps. Continual pretraining PLMs using AfriSocial as domain adaptive pretraining (DAPT) data, consistently improves performance on fine-grained emotion classification task of 16 targeted languages from 1% to 28.27% macro F1 score. Likewise, using the task adaptive pertaining (TAPT) approach, further finetuning with small unlabeled but similar task data shows promising results. For example, unlabeled sentiment data (source) for fine-grained emotion classification task (target) improves the base model results by an F1 score ranging from 0.55% to 15.11%. Combining the two methods, DAPT + TAPT, achieves also better results than base models. All the resources will be available to improve low-resource NLP tasks, generally, as well as other similar domain tasks such as hate speech and sentiment tasks.

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