Okalai AI — Multilingual AI Research

Research

Publications

Our work spans multilingual LLMs, typological adaptation, and low-resource NLP.

ACL 2026

Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail

@inproceedings{nakashole2026grammar,
  title={Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail},
  author={Nakashole, Ndapa},
  booktitle={Proceedings of ACL},
  year={2026}
}

LREC 2026

Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama

@inproceedings{nakashole2026kwanyama,
  title={Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama},
  author={Nakashole, Ndapa},
  booktitle={Proceedings of LREC},
  year={2026}
}

ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award

Typology-Guided Adaptation in Multilingual Models

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@inproceedings{nakashole2025typology,
  title={Typology-Guided Adaptation in Multilingual Models},
  author={Nakashole, Ndapa},
  booktitle={Proceedings of ACL},
  year={2025}
}