BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages DTSTART:20251030T203000Z DTEND:20251030T220000Z UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/10/david-adelani/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Watch recording:\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Free and open to the public. Despite the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs)\, their re markable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. In this talk\, David Ifeoluwa Adelani will describe different approaches to s caling evaluation to several languages. He will describe simple strategies for extending multilingual evaluations by repurposing existing English da tasets to over 200 languages for both text (SIB-200) and speech modalities (Fleurs-SLU). He will also introduce IrokoBench–a human-translated benc hmark dataset for 17 typologically diverse low-resource African languages covering three tasks: natural language inference\, mathematical reasoning \, and multi-choice knowledge-based question answering. The talk will conc lude with highlights from recent projects that make some of these challeng ing datasets more multicultural for visual question answering and intent d etection tasks\, to encourage practical usage of LLMs within the low-resou rce communities.Dr. David Adelani is an Assistant Professor at the McGill University School of Computer Science\, a Core Academic Member at Mila - Q uebec AI Institute\, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Before his appointment a t McGill University\, he was a postdoctoral and DeepMind fellow at Univers ity College London\, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Sci ence from the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland Un iversity in Germany in 2023\, where he was awarded a Dr. Eduard-Martin Out standing Doctoral Prize. His research interests include multilingual natur al language processing with a focus on low-resource languages\, speech pro cessing\, privacy\, and safety of large language models. With over 40 publ ications in leading NLP and Speech Processing venues like ACL\, TACL\, EMN LP\, NAACL\, COLING\, and Interspeech\, he has made significant contributi ons to NLP for low-resource languages. Notably\, one of his publications r eceived the Best Paper Award (Global Challenges) at COLING 2022 for develo ping AfroXLMR\, a multilingual pre-trained language model for African lang uages. Other notable awards include an Area Chair Award at IJCNLP-AACL 202 3 and an Outstanding Paper Award and Best Theme Paper Award at NAACL 2025. \n\n\n\n \n \n Series co-sponsors and supporters\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Download t he poster for this event.\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n \n \n AAA-Dav id-Adelani-Poster\n \n (PNG\, 1.2 MB)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Related events\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n African Languages in the Age of AI (AAA) Speaker Series\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Bringing leading scholars to Pri nceton to discuss the opportunities and challenges for developing technolo gies that empower African languages\n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Towards AI M odels That Can Visually Understand the World'\;s Cultures\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nov 22 2024 4:30PM–6:00PM\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Graham Neubig\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n African Languages in the Age of A I\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n End-to- End African Language Technology\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Oct 24 2024 4:30PM–6:00PM\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Ernest Mwebaze\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n African Languages in the Age of AI\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n A New Agenda for African Languages x A I: Everything\, Everywhere\, All At Once\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sep 19 2024 4:30PM–6:00PM\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Vukosi Marivate\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n African Languages in the Age of AI\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Related research group\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Africa n Language Technologies Lab\n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Focused on increasing the representation of African languages in NLP \, LLMs\, and AI. Directors: Christiane Fellbaum\, Happy Buzaaba\n\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\nhttp s://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/10/david-adelani/ LOCATION:103 Bendheim House\, 26 Prospect Ave\, Princeton\, NJ 08540 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR