About Me

Hi! I’m Ify, an independent researcher at Masakhane an open science community where Africans do AI research for Africa. Prior to this, I spent three years as a Data Scientist in the industry.

My research focuses on improving multilingual, human-centered Natural Language Processing (NLP) for low-resource languages by leveraging methods like transfer learning and bias mitigation techniques. I work on machine translation, multilingual models, and language variation to create more accurate, fair and inclusive NLP systems for diverse languages and communities.

Previously, I completed my master’s degree in Mathematics from University of Ibadan in 2021 and my bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Research Interests

• Multilingual NLP
• Machine Translation
• Human-Centered NLP
• Fairness and Bias Mitigation in AI
• Transfer and Cross-Lingual Learning
• Computational Linguistics
• Linguistic Diversity and Language Variation

News

• [Sept. 2024] Started as a Pre-Doctoral AI Research Fellow at Fatima Fellowship.
• [May. 2024] I presented my work “The IgboAPI Dataset: Empowering Igbo Language Technologies through Multi-dialectal Enrichment” at LREC-COLING 2024!.
• [Feb. 2024] Our paper “The IgboAPI Dataset: Empowering Igbo Language Technologies through Multi-dialectal Enrichment” is accepted to LREC-COLING 2024.

Publications

• The IgboAPI Dataset: Empowering Igbo Language Technologies through Multi-dialectal Enrichment

  Chris Chinenye Emezue*, Ifeoma Okoh*, Chinedu Mbonu, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Daisy Lal, Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson, Ijemma Onwuzulike, et. al.

  LREC-COLING 2024.

  PDF DATA MODEL PRESENTATION


• Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning

  Shivalika Singh, Freddie Vargus, Daniel Dsouza, ..., Ifeoma Okoh, ..., Julia Kreutzer, Ahmet Ustun, Marzieh Fadaee, Sara Hooker.

  ACL 2024.

  PDF


• Naijaner: Comprehensive named entity recognition for 5 Nigerian languages

  Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ifeoma Okoh, Vitus Onuigwe, Mary Idera Salami, Opeyemi Osakuade, Sharon Ibejih, Usman Abdullahi Musa.

  AfricanNLP workshop at EACL 2021.

  PDF CODE PRESENTATION


• Artificial intelligence for pharmacovigilance in Nigerian social media text

  Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ifeoma Okoh, Mary Idera Salami, Opeyemi Osakuade, Sharon Ibejih, Vitus Onuigwe.

  AI for Public Health Workshop at ICLR 2021.

  PDF


• AFRIFASHION1600: a contemporary African fashion dataset for computer vision

  Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Sharon Ibejih, Opeyemi Osakuade, Ifeoma Okoh, Mary Salami.

  Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition 2021.

  PDF DATA

Teaching and Mentoring

• Data Science Mentor at She Code Africa (Jan 2020 – Sep 2022)
• Python Instructor at Computer Science Academy Africa (Aug 2019 – Sep 2021)

Services

Reviewer: AfricaNLP Workshop at ICLR 2024, Deep Learning Indaba 2024

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