Research

Publications

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

LREC 2026

Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama

1B, 3B, and 8B parameter LLMs for Kwanyama, the first large language models for Kwanyama of this scale.

Ndapa Nakashole

@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

Leveraging linguistic typology to improve cross-lingual transfer in multilingual models.

Ndapa Nakashole

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