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The Language of Gángan, A Yorùbá Talking Drum

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This paper investigates the grammar of gángan, which belongs to a family of Yoruba drums called dùndún.
Samuel Kayode Akinbo
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ÌròyìnSpeech: A Multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus [PDF]

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2023
We introduce ÌròyìnSpeech corpus—a new dataset influenced by a desire to increase the amount of high quality, freely available, contemporary Yorùbá speech data that can be used for both Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tasks ...
Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí, Kólá Túbosún, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Iroro Orife, David Ifeoluwa Adelani   +4 more
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Varepsilon kú mask: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation [PDF]

C3NLP, 2023
This paper investigates the performance of massively multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) systems in translating Yorùbá greetings (kú mask), which are a big part of Yorùbá language and culture, into English.
Idris Akinade, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Clement Odoje, D. Klakow   +4 more
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Communique Issued at the End of the First International Conference on Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and Western Niger Delta, Held at Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, from 6–8 December 2016

Yoruba Studies Review, 2021
An international conference was held from December 6 to 8 2016 at Adeyemi College of Education Ondo, with the theme “Mobile Populations, Fluid Boundaries: Community, Trade and Religion in Coastal Yorubaland and the Western Niger Delta.” The conference ...
Yoruba Studies Review
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yosm: A new yoruba sentiment corpus for movie reviews [PDF]

arXiv.org, 2022
A movie that is thoroughly enjoyed and recommended by an individual might be hated by another. One characteristic of humans is the ability to have feelings which could be positive or negative. To automatically classify and study human feelings, an aspect
Iyanuoluwa Shode, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Anna Feldman   +2 more
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Gender relations in Indigenous Yorùbá culture: questioning current feminist actions and advocacies

Third World Quarterly, 2023
Gender hierarchy and inequality are attributes of Western colonialism enforced in several colonised societies. Similarly, feminism (Western), as the antithesis of European sexism, has permeated colonised societies and has been assimilated without proper ...
L. Muraina, Abdulkareem J. Ajímátanraẹjẹ   +1 more
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Egúngún: ancestralidad y educación

Interpretatio. Revista de Hermenéutica, 2022
En este artículo nos proponemos explorar el vínculo entre las nociones de ancestralidad y educación.  Comenzamos revisando algunos aspectos generales de la veneración de los ancestros en las culturas del África subsahariana.
Abril Atenea Reyes Sandoval
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Bhattacharya_Lab at SemEval-2023 Task 12: A Transformer-based Language Model for Sentiment Classification for Low Resource African Languages: Nigerian Pidgin and Yoruba

International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2023
Sentiment Analysis is an aspect of natural languageprocessing (NLP) that has been a topicof research. While most studies focus on highresourcelanguages with an extensive amountof available data, the study on low-resource languageswith insufficient data ...
Nathaniel Hughes, Kevan Baker, A. Singh, Aryavardhan Singh, Tharalillah Dauda, Sutanu Bhattacharya   +5 more
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Yoruba Culture in a Changing World

Yoruba Studies Review, 2023
Culture, a way of life, ideology, and philosophy of a people, has been a focal point of scholarly research in the fields of literature, language, history, and sociology, among others.
À. Adéjùmọ
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