Mmasibidi Setaka-Bapela

Employment

• South African Centre for Digital language Resources Researcher: Sesotho
  2018 - Present
• Bona Magazine Sesotho Translator
  2012 - 2018

Education

• University of Pretoria MA African Languges
  2013 - 2019
• University of Pretoria BA Hons Applied Language Studies
  2010 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages
  Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025 DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.464
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• INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages
  Arxiv 2025 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.09814
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• IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models
  Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Long Papers Naacl Hlt 2025 2025 DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.139
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• THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNICATION ON DIGITAL HUMANITIES TRAINING
  Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice 2025 DOI: 10.4324/9781003327677.24
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• IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models
  Arxiv 2024 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.03368
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• Preface
  5th Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages Rail 2024 at Lrec Coling 2024 Workshop Proceedings 2024
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• An overview of Sesotho BLARK content
  Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2023 DOI: 10.55492/dhasa.v4i01.4440
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• Evaluating the Sesotho rule-based syllabification system on Sepedi and Setswana words
  4th Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages Rail 2023 Proceedings of the Workshop 2023
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• Resource Repositories and linking resources: An exploratory study
  Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) 2022 DOI: 10.55492/dhasa.v4i02.4342
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• Digitizing Humanities in South Africa: Computational linguistic resources, training, and community building
  Pop! Public. Open. Participatory 2020 DOI: 10.54590/pop.2020.007
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