Author

Kathleen Siminyu

Observed name: Siminyu, Kathleen

Institution: DAIR Institute

Observed institutions: Mozilla Foundation, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Waterloo, DAIR Institute

OpenAlex ID: A5048239088

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

2020 · Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, et al. · 190

Road map for research on responsible artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) in African countries: The case study of agriculture

2021 · Arthur Gwagwa, Emre Kazim, et al. · Patterns · 76

Masakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa

2020 · Orife, Iroro, Kreutzer, Julia, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 50

AI4D -- African Language Program

2021 · Siminyu, Kathleen, Kalipe, Godson, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 9

Phoneme Recognition Through Fine Tuning of Phonetic Representations: A Case Study on Luhya Language Varieties

2021 · Kathleen Siminyu, Xinjian Li, et al. · Interspeech (USB) · 7

Consultative engagement of stakeholders toward a roadmap for African language technologies

2023 · Kathleen Siminyu, Jade Abbott, et al. · Patterns · 6

AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge

2020 · Kathleen Siminyu, Sackey Freshia · 5

Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training

2025 · Baack, Stefan, Biderman, Stella, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 3

Corpus Development of Kiswahili Speech Recognition Test and Evaluation sets, Preemptively Mitigating Demographic Bias Through Collaboration with Linguists

2022 · Kathleen Siminyu, Kibibi Mohamed Amran, et al. · 3

Tusom2021: A Phonetically Transcribed Speech Dataset from an Endangered Language for Universal Phone Recognition Experiments

2021 · David R. Mortensen, Jordan Picone, et al. · Interspeech (USB) · 3

1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

2020 · Siminyu, Kathleen, Martinus, Laura, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2

On the Tolerance of Repetition Before Performance Degradation in Kiswahili Automatic Speech Recognition

2025 · Kathleen Siminyu, Kathy Reid, et al.

Building Together - Towards a Roadmap for African Language Technologies

2022 · Kathleen Siminyu, Jade Abbott, et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal

Works count: 15

Citation count: 355

H-index: 6

I10-index: 3