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Hausa vowels and dipthongs

Studies in African Linguistics, 1985
Acoustic properties of Hausa vowels and diphthongs from several speakers are investigated. The results show that Hausa is best described as having a five vowel system, where the five basic vowels have the qualities of the long vowels. Long vowels are derived as double basic vowels.
Mona Lindau-Webb
openaire   +6 more sources

hauWE: Hausa Words Embedding for Natural Language Processing [PDF]

2019 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (NigeriaComputConf), 2019
Words embedding (distributed word vector representations) have become an essential component of many natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as machine translation, sentiment analysis, word analogy, named entity recognition and word similarity. Despite this, the only work that provides word vectors for Hausa language is that of Bojanowski et al ...
Idris Abdulmumin, B. Galadanci
arxiv   +3 more sources

HausaMT v1.0: Towards English-Hausa Neural Machine Translation [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for low-resource languages suffers from low performance because of the lack of large amounts of parallel data and language diversity. To contribute to ameliorating this problem, we built a baseline model for English-Hausa machine translation, which is considered a task for low-resource language.
Adewale Akinfaderin
arxiv   +3 more sources

Cross-cultural adaptatiion and validation of the stroke specific quality of life 2.0 scale into Hausa language

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2018
Background The Stroke Specific Quality of Life 2.0 (SS-QoL 2.0) is a widely used scale that has been cross-culturally adapted to many languages including Yoruba, one of the three major Nigerian languages.
Marufat O. Odetunde, Aderonke O. Akinpelu, Adesola C. Odole   +2 more
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Are Generative Language Models Multicultural? A Study on Hausa Culture and Emotions using ChatGPT [PDF]

arXiv
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are widely used to generate content for various purposes and audiences. However, these models may not reflect the cultural and emotional diversity of their users, especially for low-resource languages. In this paper, we investigate how ChatGPT represents Hausa's culture and emotions.
Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Shiran Dudy, R. Ramachandranpillai, K. Church   +3 more
arxiv   +2 more sources

Seals_Lab at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for Low-resource African Languages, Hausa and Igbo

International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2023
One of the most extensively researched applications in natural language processing (NLP) is sentiment analysis. While the majority of the study focuses on high-resource languages (e.g., English), this research will focus on low-resource African languages
Nilanjana Raychawdhary, Amit Das, Gerry V. Dozier, Cheryl D. Seals   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolutionary Trends in the Landscape of Hausa Open Spaces

Journal of Regional and City Planning, 2023
This study took the ‘origin-pattern-function’ of landscape progression as the central theoretical framework and conducted a systematic study on the evolution of open-space landscape patterns in Habe cities, situated between the river Niger and the river ...
D. A. Yusuf, Zhu Jie, Maimuna Saleh-Bala, A. Yakubu, Sadiq Abdullahi Nashe   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social and economic factors influencing intrahousehold food allocation and egg consumption of children in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Adequate intake of high‐quality nutritious foods during infancy and early childhood is critical to achieving optimal growth, cognitive and behavioural development, and economic productivity later in life. Integrating high‐quality and nutrient‐dense animal source foods (ASFs), a major source of protein and micronutrients, into children's diets ...
Lauren S. Blum, Haley Swartz, Gloria Olisenekwu, Irowa Erhabor, Wendy Gonzalez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of selected features of hausa vernacular architecture, case study of Dakali and Zaure in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria

ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur, 2022
Hausa Vernacular architecture is informed and shaped by cultural and religious values, wherein, Dakali and Zaure are unique features that plays a pivotal role.
N. A. Umaru, S. T. Adamu, M. M. Bello, B. Jolaoso, Babatunde Adekoyejo   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of Heavy Metals in Fish Tissues of Tilapia and Catfish from River Hadejia, Northern Nigeria [PDF]

Physics Access, 2023
Kidney failure has become a growing problem at Hadejia Emirates over the last decade. This can be attributed to water pollution, possibly due to heavy metal contamination of River Hadejia that affects organisms living in it, such as fish.
Lawan M Yalwa, Sani G Durumin Iya, Haruna Ahmad   +2 more
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