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Google at EMNLP 2023

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Google at EMNLP 2023

Google is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), a premier annual conference, which is being held this week in Sentosa, Singapore. Google has a strong presence at this year’s conference with over 65 accepted papers and active involvement in 11 workshops and tutorials. Google is also happy to be a Major Sponsor for the Widening NLP workshop (WiNLP), which aims to highlight global representations of people, perspectives, and cultures in AI and ML. We look forward to sharing some of our extensive NLP research and expanding our partnership with the broader research community.

We hope you’ll visit the Google booth to chat with researchers who are actively pursuing the latest innovations in NLP, and check out some of the scheduled booth activities (e.g., demos and Q&A sessions listed below). Visit the @GoogleAI X (Twitter) and LinkedIn accounts to find out more about the Google booth activities at EMNLP 2023.

Take a look below to learn more about the Google research being presented at EMNLP 2023 (Google affiliations in bold).

This schedule is subject to change. Please visit the Google booth for more information.

Adaptation with Self-Evaluation to Improve Selective Prediction in LLMs Jiefeng Chen*, Jinsung Yoon, Sayna Ebrahimi, Sercan O Arik, Tomas Pfister, Somesh Jha

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Tool-Assisted Generation Strategies Alon Jacovi*, Avi Caciularu, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Bernd Bohnet, Mor Geva

1-PAGER: One Pass Answer Generation and Evidence Retrieval Palak Jain, Livio Baldini Soares, Tom Kwiatkowski

MaXM: Towards Multilingual Visual Question Answering Soravit Changpinyo, Linting Xue, Michal Yarom, Ashish V. Thapliyal, Idan Szpektor, Julien Amelot, Xi Chen, Radu Soricut

SDOH-NLI: A Dataset for Inferring Social Determinants of Health from Clinical Notes Adam D. Lelkes, Eric Loreaux*, Tal Schuster, Ming-Jun Chen, Alvin Rajkomar

Machine Reading Comprehension Using Case-based Reasoning Dung Ngoc Thai, Dhruv Agarwal, Mudit Chaudhary, Wenlong Zhao, Rajarshi Das, Jay-Yoon Lee, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Manzil Zaheer, Andrew McCallum

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera, Jonathan H. Clark, Sebastian Ruder, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Abdou Aziz DIOP, Claytone Sikasote, Gilles HACHEME, Happy Buzaaba, Ignatius Ezeani, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Albert Kahira, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Ayodele Awokoya, Bernard Opoku, Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Christine Mwase, Clemencia Siro, Stephen Arthur, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Verrah Akinyi Otiende, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Boyd Sinkala, Daniel Ajisafe, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, CHINEDU EMMANUEL MBONU, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Mofya Phiri, Orevaoghene Ahia, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo

On Uncertainty Calibration and Selective Generation in Probabilistic Neural Summarization: A Benchmark Study Polina Zablotskaia, Du Phan, Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, Jie Ren, Jeremiah Zhe Liu

Epsilon Sampling Rocks: Investigating Sampling Strategies for Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Machine Translation Markus Freitag, Behrooz Ghorbani*, Patrick Fernandes*

Sources of Hallucination by Large Language Models on Inference Tasks Nick McKenna, Tianyi Li, Liang Cheng, Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Mark Johnson, Mark Steedman

Don’t Add, Don’t Miss: Effective Content Preserving Generation from Pre-selected Text Spans Aviv Slobodkin, Avi Caciularu, Eran Hirsch, Ido Dagan

What Makes Chain-of-Thought Prompting Effective? A Counterfactual Study Aman Madaan*, Katherine Hermann, Amir Yazdanbakhsh

Understanding HTML with Large Language Models Izzeddin Gur, Ofir Nachum, Yingjie Miao, Mustafa Safdari, Austin Huang, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Noah Fiedel, Aleksandra Faust

Improving the Robustness of Summarization Models by Detecting and Removing Input Noise Kundan Krishna*, Yao Zhao, Jie Ren, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Jiaming Luo, Mohammad Saleh, Peter J. Liu

In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors Roee Hendel, Mor Geva, Amir Globerson

Pre-training Without Attention Junxiong Wang, Jing Nathan Yan, Albert Gu, Alexander M Rush

MUX-PLMs: Data Multiplexing for High-Throughput Language Models Vishvak Murahari, Ameet Deshpande, Carlos E Jimenez, Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang, Yuan Cao, Karthik R Narasimhan

PaRaDe: Passage Ranking Using Demonstrations with LLMs Andrew Drozdov*, Honglei Zhuang, Zhuyun Dai, Zhen Qin, Razieh Rahimi, Xuanhui Wang, Dana Alon, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew McCallum, Donald Metzler*, Kai Hui

Long-Form Speech Translation Through Segmentation with Finite-State Decoding Constraints on Large Language Models Arya D. McCarthy, Hao Zhang, Shankar Kumar, Felix Stahlberg, Ke Wu

Unsupervised Opinion Summarization Using Approximate Geodesics Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury*, Nicholas Monath, Kumar Avinava Dubey, Amr Ahmed, Snigdha Chaturvedi

SQLPrompt: In-Context Text-to-SQL with Minimal Labeled Data Ruoxi Sun, Sercan O. Arik, Rajarishi Sinha, Hootan Nakhost, Hanjun Dai, Pengcheng Yin, Tomas Pfister

Retrieval-Augmented Parsing for Complex Graphs by Exploiting Structure and Uncertainty Zi Lin, Quan Yuan, Panupong Pasupat, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Jingbo Shang

A Zero-Shot Language Agent for Computer Control with Structured Reflection Tao Li, Gang Li, Zhiwei Deng, Bryan Wang*, Yang Li

Pragmatics in Language Grounding: Phenomena, Tasks, and Modeling Approaches Daniel Fried, Nicholas Tomlin, Jennifer Hu, Roma Patel, Aida Nematzadeh

Improving Classifier Robustness Through Active Generation of Pairwise Counterfactuals Ananth Balashankar, Xuezhi Wang, Yao Qin, Ben Packer, Nithum Thain, Jilin Chen, Ed H. Chi, Alex Beutel

mmT5: Modular Multilingual Pre-training Solves Source Language Hallucinations Jonas Pfeiffer, Francesco Piccinno, Massimo Nicosia, Xinyi Wang, Machel Reid, Sebastian Ruder

Scaling Laws vs Model Architectures: How Does Inductive Bias Influence Scaling? Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Samira Abnar, Hyung Won Chung, William Fedus, Jinfeng Rao, Sharan Narang, Vinh Q. Tran, Dani Yogatama, Donald Metzler

TaTA: A Multilingual Table-to-Text Dataset for African Languages Sebastian Gehrmann, Sebastian Ruder, Vitaly Nikolaev, Jan A. Botha, Michael Chavinda, Ankur P Parikh, Clara E. Rivera

XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin, Mihir Kale, Min Ma, Massimo Nicosia, Shruti Rijhwani, Parker Riley, Jean Michel Amath Sarr, Xinyi Wang, John Frederick Wieting, Nitish Gupta, Anna Katanova, Christo Kirov, Dana L Dickinson, Brian Roark, Bidisha Samanta, Connie Tao, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Axelrod, Isaac Rayburn Caswell, Colin Cherry, Dan Garrette, Reeve Ingle, Melvin Johnson, Dmitry Panteleev, Partha Talukdar

q2d: Turning Questions into Dialogs to Teach Models How to Search Yonatan Bitton, Shlomi Cohen-Ganor, Ido Hakimi, Yoad Lewenberg, Roee Aharoni, Enav Weinreb

Emergence of Abstract State Representations in Embodied Sequence Modeling Tian Yun*, Zilai Zeng, Kunal Handa, Ashish V Thapliyal, Bo Pang, Ellie Pavlick, Chen Sun

Evaluating and Modeling Attribution for Cross-Lingual Question Answering Benjamin Muller*, John Wieting, Jonathan H. Clark, Tom Kwiatkowski, Sebastian Ruder, Livio Baldini Soares, Roee Aharoni, Jonathan Herzig, Xinyi Wang

Weakly-Supervised Learning of Visual Relations in Multimodal Pre-training Emanuele Bugliarello, Aida Nematzadeh, Lisa Anne Hendricks

How Do Languages Influence Each Other? Studying Cross-Lingual Data Sharing During LM Fine-Tuning Rochelle Choenni, Dan Garrette, Ekaterina Shutova

CompoundPiece: Evaluating and Improving Decompounding Performance of Language Models Benjamin Minixhofer, Jonas Pfeiffer, Ivan Vulić

IC3: Image Captioning by Committee Consensus David Chan, Austin Myers, Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, David A Ross, John Canny

The Curious Case of Hallucinatory (Un)answerability: Finding Truths in the Hidden States of Over-Confident Large Language Models Aviv Slobodkin, Omer Goldman, Avi Caciularu, Ido Dagan, Shauli Ravfogel

Evaluating Large Language Models on Controlled Generation Tasks Jiao Sun, Yufei Tian, Wangchunshu Zhou, Nan Xu, Qian Hu, Rahul Gupta, John Wieting, Nanyun Peng, Xuezhe Ma

Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration Daniel Deutsch, George Foster, Markus Freitag

Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute Yi Tay*, Jason Wei*, Hyung Won Chung*, Vinh Q. Tran, David R. So*, Siamak Shakeri, Xavier Garcia, Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Jinfeng Rao, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Denny Zhou, Donald Metzler, Slav Petrov, Neil Houlsby, Quoc V. Le, Mostafa Dehghani

Data Similarity is Not Enough to Explain Language Model Performance Gregory Yauney*, Emily Reif, David Mimno

Self-Influence Guided Data Reweighting for Language Model Pre-training Megh Thakkar*, Tolga Bolukbasi, Sriram Ganapathy, Shikhar Vashishth, Sarath Chandar, Partha Talukdar

ReTAG: Reasoning Aware Table to Analytic Text Generation Deepanway Ghosal, Preksha Nema, Aravindan Raghuveer

GATITOS: Using a New Multilingual Lexicon for Low-Resource Machine Translation Alex Jones*, Isaac Caswell, Ishank Saxena

Video-Helpful Multimodal Machine Translation Yihang Li, Shuichiro Shimizu, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi, Wei Li

Symbol Tuning Improves In-Context Learning in Language Models Jerry Wei*, Le Hou, Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Xiangning Chen*, Da Huang, Yi Tay*, Xinyun Chen, Yifeng Lu, Denny Zhou, Tengyu Ma*, Quoc V Le

“Don’t Take This Out of Context!” On the Need for Contextual Models and Evaluations for Stylistic Rewriting Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou, Elizabeth Clark, Maarten Sap

QAmeleon: Multilingual QA with Only 5 Examples Priyanka Agrawal, Chris Alberti, Fantine Huot, Joshua Maynez, Ji Ma, Sebastian Ruder, Kuzman Ganchev, Dipanjan Das, Mirella Lapata

Speak, Read and Prompt: High-Fidelity Text-to-Speech with Minimal Supervision Eugene Kharitonov, Damien Vincent, Zalán Borsos, Raphaël Marinier, Sertan Girgin, Olivier Pietquin, Matt Sharifi, Marco Tagliasacchi, Neil Zeghidour

AnyTOD: A Programmable Task-Oriented Dialog System Jeffrey Zhao, Yuan Cao, Raghav Gupta, Harrison Lee, Abhinav Rastogi, Mingqiu Wang, Hagen Soltau, Izhak Shafran, Yonghui Wu

Selectively Answering Ambiguous Questions Jeremy R. Cole, Michael JQ Zhang, Daniel Gillick, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Bhuwan Dhingra, Jacob Eisenstein

PRESTO: A Multilingual Dataset for Parsing Realistic Task-Oriented Dialogs (see blog post) Rahul Goel, Waleed Ammar, Aditya Gupta, Siddharth Vashishtha, Motoki Sano, Faiz Surani*, Max Chang, HyunJeong Choe, David Greene, Chuan He, Rattima Nitisaroj, Anna Trukhina, Shachi Paul, Pararth Shah, Rushin Shah, Zhou Yu

LM vs LM: Detecting Factual Errors via Cross Examination Roi Cohen, May Hamri, Mor Geva, Amir Globerson

A Suite of Generative Tasks for Multi-Level Multimodal Webpage Understanding Andrea Burns*, Krishna Srinivasan, Joshua Ainslie, Geoff Brown, Bryan A. Plummer, Kate Saenko, Jianmo Ni, Mandy Guo

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Nedjma Ousidhoum, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad, Sebastian Ruder, Oumaima Hourrane, Alipio Jorge, Pavel Brazdil, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Davis David, Salomey Osei, Bello Shehu-Bello, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Wendimu Baye Messelle, Hailu Beshada Balcha, Sisay Adugna Chala, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Bernard Opoku, Stephen Arthur

Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Reader Models via Token Elimination Moshe Berchansky, Peter Izsak, Avi Caciularu, Ido Dagan, Moshe Wasserblat

SEAHORSE: A Multilingual, Multifaceted Dataset for Summarization Evaluation Elizabeth Clark, Shruti Rijhwani, Sebastian Gehrmann, Joshua Maynez, Roee Aharoni, Vitaly Nikolaev, Thibault Sellam, Aditya Siddhant, Dipanjan Das, Ankur P Parikh

GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints Joshua Ainslie, James Lee-Thorp, Michiel de Jong*, Yury Zemlyanskiy, Federico Lebron, Sumit Sanghai

CoLT5: Faster Long-Range Transformers with Conditional Computation Joshua Ainslie, Tao Lei, Michiel de Jong, Santiago Ontanon, Siddhartha Brahma, Yury Zemlyanskiy, David Uthus, Mandy Guo, James Lee-Thorp, Yi Tay, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Sumit Sanghai

Improving Diversity of Demographic Representation in Large Language Models via Collective-Critiques and Self-Voting Preethi Lahoti, Nicholas Blumm, Xiao Ma, Raghavendra Kotikalapudi, Sahitya Potluri, Qijun Tan, Hansa Srinivasan, Ben Packer, Ahmad Beirami, Alex Beutel, Jilin Chen

Universal Self-Adaptive Prompting (see blog post) Xingchen Wan*, Ruoxi Sun, Hootan Nakhost, Hanjun Dai, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Sercan O. Arik, Tomas Pfister

TrueTeacher: Learning Factual Consistency Evaluation with Large Language Models Zorik Gekhman, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Chen Elkind, Idan Szpektor

Hierarchical Pre-training on Multimodal Electronic Health Records Xiaochen Wang, Junyu Luo, Jiaqi Wang, Ziyi Yin, Suhan Cui, Yuan Zhong, Yaqing Wang, Fenglong Ma

NAIL: Lexical Retrieval Indices with Efficient Non-Autoregressive Decoders Livio Baldini Soares, Daniel Gillick, Jeremy R. Cole, Tom Kwiatkowski

How Does Generative Retrieval Scale to Millions of Passages? Ronak Pradeep*, Kai Hui, Jai Gupta, Adam D. Lelkes, Honglei Zhuang, Jimmy Lin, Donald Metzler, Vinh Q. Tran

Make Every Example Count: On the Stability and Utility of Self-Influence for Learning from Noisy NLP Datasets Irina Bejan*, Artem Sokolov, Katja Filippova

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Errar, superar, aprender e recomeçar ! ✌🍻👊 #bomdiaa #domingao #blessed #mofya

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Thankfully, there is the @africandiasporanetwork (ADN) in the Bay Area that pulls together Africans and friends of Africa that are building companies and investing on the continent. I have no problem connecting with African founders at #ADN events. I spoke on panel last Saturday at their speakers series event that ADN hosts around the country. We discussed the “Shifting Global Perspectives on Investment in Africa” with Sid Mofya of @draper_u, Jude O’Reilly of @skoll.foundation, @marshawulff and @magattew. Afterwards, I connected with many founders and individuals looking to #investinafrica. I really enjoyed contributing to the conversation and inspiring action for folks to put their money to work “back home”. Get invested! 💰 #fmcapitalgrp #faithmight 💯 (at Draper Associates) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1hcShZHCW6/?igshid=1vjbc6ra1hh7l

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Kariba Dam Leakage Being Addressed - Kapala

KARIBA DAM LEAKAGE BEING ADDRESSED – KAPALA By Mwenya Mofya ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala says the reported leakage at the Kariba dam is being addressed. During a review meeting of the Kariba and Maamba trips recently, President Hakainde Hichilema revealed that there were leakages at the Kariba dam. “I think minister (referring to Minister of Energy), what I wanted you to touch on is the…

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OWWA fetes 2019 Cordillera model OFW families

#PHinfo: OWWA fetes 2019 Cordillera model OFW families

Cordillera Model OFW Families. Land-based OFW Angelina Calaowa (6th from left) joined by husband and family members on her left side and Sea - based OFW Alfonso Maico (7th from left) with his wife and family  in a photo opportunity during the OWWA - CAR led 2019 MOFYA regional awarding ceremony. (CCD/PIA CAR)

BAGUIO CITY, Oct. 24 (PIA) - - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA), in partnership with the 2019 Model OFW Family of the Year Award Regional Search and Selection Committee,  awarded the families of OFW Angelina Calaowa and Alfonso Maico as Cordillera’s MOFYA winners in the land - based and sea – based category, respectively.

Angelina Calaowa worked as a staff nurse at United Arab Emirates for 27 years. Angelina and husband, Manny, are blessed with four children, all of whom have their respective careers now. Their eldest is currently working as a nurse in UAE. The family lives in Loakan, Baguio City.

Alfonso Maico of Woodsville Subdivision in Camp 7, Baguio City worked as a seafarer for 27 years. He and wife Marivic have three children who are all professionals now.

The regional winners will represent the Cordillera region in the national search.

Winning  special awards during the   MOFYA awarding held at Paragon Hotel here Saturday are the  family of Peter Cotiyam of Buguias,  Benguet for Outstanding Achievement in Community Projects,  and the family of Helen Betbet of Pudtol,  Apayao for Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship.

Other regional finalists for the MOFYA 2019 are the families of OFWs Deborah Milad of Natonin, Mountain Province and Jenelyn Bayawon of Kiangan, Ifugao for the land – based category, and the family of OFW Porsado Valera Jr. of Bangued, Abra for the sea – based category.

All finalists received certificate of recognition and cash prizes. OWWA partner agencies like DOT, DTI, LandBank, POPCOM and DFA also shared tokens as additional prizes. 

 This year’s MOFYA RSSC is composed of Fe Damagen of Episcopal Diocese of Northern Central Philippines as chairperson with Director Helen Tibaldo of PIA – CAR, Wendy Salada of DOLE- CAR, Vilma Corpuz for OFW sea – based sector, Grace Mayos for OFW land – based sector, Cathy Biswalen, former president CALMA, and Carmen Moyaen of Community and Family Service Inc. as members.

 OWWA – CAR Regional Director Manuela Peña outlined that MOFYA is an annual search since 1995 that aims to highlight and give recognition to OFW families triumph in facing the challenges of migration, on how they cope up and maintain family solidarity despite the physical distance, how they maintain civic and community involvement, how they invested in their child/children’s education and on how they manage their finances and business investments. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)

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References:

* Philippine Information Agency. "OWWA fetes 2019 Cordillera model OFW families." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1029100 (accessed October 24, 2019 at 11:54AM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "OWWA fetes 2019 Cordillera model OFW families." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1029100 (archived).

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Wife Sets House On Fire After Hubby Brought in a Pregnant Woman and Says She Can Leave Or Stay if She Wants. Mrs Ireen Kalenga (28) burnt the house occupied by her family last night while her husband, Mr Kalenga and his pregnant side chick were asleep. The side chick, identified as Tina Mofya, narrating the incident to police said, the 1st wife has not been able to conceive after 3 years of marriage, while she luckily got pregnant for Mr Kalenga. Kalenga however gave his 1st wife an option to accept Tina into the home or move out. Ireen is said to have waited until midnight while her husband and his ''Tina'' were fast asleep, before taking out her belongings and setting the house on fire. Police has launched a search for Ireen Kalenga, on accounts relating to attempted murder. Jowanonline.net https://www.instagram.com/p/BvgmkSzhfLC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q886tmlsuk4u

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Farmers must innovative - IAPRI

Farmers must innovative - IAPRI ...Covid-19, Dr Mofya said, was a systemic challenge because it was not only about health, but about food security as well. READ STORY:

BUUMBA CHIMBULU writes

ONLY innovative farmers, just like any other business, have a possibility to succeed post the Covid-19 pandemic which presents an opportunity to rethink sustainable agriculture in Zambia.

This is an opportunity to rethink sustainable agriculture in the country, says Indaba Agricultural Research Institute (IAPRI), Senior Research Fellow and Head Research on…

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(Photo) Six-week-old baby snatched from his mother outside Shoprite Center, South Africa

(Photo) Six-week-old baby snatched from his mother outside Shoprite Center, South Africa

Police have launched manhunt for a suspect who snatched a six-week-old baby from his mother outside the Shoprite Centre in Pretorius Street, Mokopane CBD, South Africa.

Police Captain Marcus Mofya, who confirmed the incident said the baby boy was snatched from the mother outside the Shoprite Center while she was buying food at a spaza shop.

Reports suggest the baby snatcher disappeared into…

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A Zambian Lady Sets There House On Fire After Her Husband Impregnated Another Lady

A Zambian Lady Sets There House On Fire After Her Husband Impregnated Another Lady

A Zambian wife Burns down the house after her hubby brought in a pregnant woman, saying she can leave or stay if she pleases.

The wife, Mrs Ireen Kalenga(28) burnt the house last night and left while her husband, Mr Kalenga and his pregnant side chick were sleeping.

The pregnant side chick identified as Tina Mofya, when interrogated told the police that the 1st wife has not been able to conceive…

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Guimarasnon OFW family wins national search

Guimarasnon OFW family wins national search

ILOILO CITY, Jan. 4 (PIA) — A family from the province of Guimaras was one of the national awardees of the 2018 Model OFW Family of the Year Award (MOFYA) of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration.

Named as Model OFW Family for the sea-based category was the family of Reynaldo Gaitan and Tessie Baje-Gaitan of Barangay Lawi, Jordan, according to the report of the Public Information and…

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Model OFW families in Cordillera honored

BAGUIO CITY -- Two overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and their families have been named as 2018 Model OFW Family of the Year Award (MOFYA) in the Cordillera region.

They were chosen not only for their financial success, but for their close family ties.

“It is quite easy to become a successful OFW in terms of maybe economic achievement, but we found out it is difficult to maintain family relations and to soar it into success," Manuela Peña, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) – Cordillera chief, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Saturday.

Peña said awarded on Friday were Conrado Sevilleja and his family, who are natives of Barangay Abaquid, Danglas, Abra, and Bernardo Salib-o and his family of Sta. Marcela town in Apayao, at Paragon Hotel here. 

The annual search of the OWWA aims to inspire overseas workers, who despite separation from their families are able to maintain good relations and succeed economically.

The Sevilleja family won the MOFYA award for the land-based category.

Conrado, who has opted to return home in 2017, now manages an18-hectare eco-farm in Abra, which is home to various high-value crops, such as dragon fruit, papaya, coconut, dalandan, passion fruit, jackfruit, and various herbs and spices.

The property was acquired through his savings, starting when he was still single in the 1980s initially as an electrician in Saudi Arabia before he moved to Australia and New Zealand to try his luck. From 2009 to 2017, he worked as a lineman.

He endured the sadness, the loneliness and the difficulty of being separated from his wife, Anita, and their three children.

Conrado said they slowly developed the farm using hard-earned money. In partnership with the Department of Agriculture (DA), the Sevillejas’ “farm-tourism” facility educates farmers on good agricultural practices.

Anita told PNA that while her husband was abroad, he acquired skills on farm management.

“Even in our travels, he would never fail to include farm visitations in our itineraries," she said.

Their farm recently passed the accreditation for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). It was the first GAP Philippine-certified farm in Abra.

In their long years of loneliness, the couple drew more strength from their three girls, now all professionals.

“Everything paid off. Now we are proud parents of three successful fine women. We have a licensed electrical engineer who graduated cum laude and holds a position at Meralco. Our second child also graduated cum laude and now works as Portfolio adviser to the Victorian Shadow Minister for Families and Children, Housing and Prevention of Family Violence at the State Parliament of Victoria in Australia, while our youngest is helping at the family-owned Sevilleja's Eco-Farm winery,” Conrado said.

The young Salib-o family, meanwhile, bagged the Sea-based category award.

Bernardo started out as a waiter at the Baguio Country Club (BCC) for two years before trying his luck as a steward for the cruise line SuperFerry, putting into practice his undergraduate course of Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering.

In 2007, he joined an international cruise line where he was hired as a junior steward.

Arcellie, Bernardo’s wife, related that they were able to build their own house, set up a mini-grocery store and buy an eight-hectare rice field in Apayao.

“My husband's work has relatively provided comfort to our family, for our two young children, the elder is seven and the younger is five,” she said.

“He has been working in the cruise line for more than 10 years now. He has been very supportive of any endeavor I would like to venture in,” Arcellie said.

She said because they support each other, they were able to succeed in both in business and in their relationship.

“We always have long distance calls. We always decide together. It has always been a mutual decision for anything that involves our family,” she said.

Apart from the awardees, there were five nominees for the 2018 MOFYA award.

They were Teresita Calado and family from Sablan, Benguet; Jerry Kadlosa and family from Bontoc, Mountain Province; Glory Laus and family from Besao, Mountain Province; Marcelo Eroy and family from Tuba, Benguet; and Evelyn Kimbungan and family from La Trinidad, Benguet.

The awardees will vie against the other regions’ best for the national MOFYA search. (PNA)

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'Nothing is happening under the New Dawn regime. Everyone feels cheated'- Bishop Tresphore Mpundu

Everyone feels cheated by UPND, nothing is happening – TelesphoreBy Mwenya Mofya FORMER Lusaka Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu says people cannot be waiting ‘donkey’s years’ for change to take place, arguing that everyone feels cheated by the current government because nothing is happening. And Archbishop Mpundu has questioned the Presidency’s association with certain people and groupings that are…

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Pres. Duterte gives a special award to Model OFW from E. Samar

#PHinfo: Pres. Duterte gives a special award to Model OFW from E. Samar

BORONGAN CITY, December 4 (PIA)—No less than President Rodrigo Roa Duterte awarded the family of Ms. Gina Baquilod Pomida-Delgado, from Borongan City,  a Regional Model Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Award (MOFYA)at the Heroes Hall in Malacanang Palace on November 28, 2019.

Ms. Gina Baquilod Pomida-Delgado received a special award as “Natatanging Parangal para sa Kalihim ng Paggawa.”

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte poses with Model OFW from Eastern Samar, Gina Pomida-Delgado with her two sons (extreme right and extreme left). (Photo by Presidential Communications)

  The government gives the awards to honor the sacrifices of Filipino migrants abroad highlighting their unsung stories of success.  It also recognizes the invaluable contributions of OFWs and the unparalleled support to their families in pursuit of a better life.

Delgado, being the eldest of six siblings, was somehow given the burden of sending her younger brothers and sisters to school, as part of the Filipino culture.

Gina said after finishing her Bachelor of Science of  Business Administration (BSBA) degree at the University of Sto. Tomas (UST), she immediately looked for a job to help her family.  She was able to work for years at the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) – Borongan.

The need to earn more

Delgado said that since some of her siblings were into college, then she was faced with a big decision – to look for a greener pasture – to work abroad.

She decided to work in Italy.  She worked for almost 30 years in Rome.  She was instrumental in financing all her siblings to finish their college degrees, and later was able to send two of them, to join her in Italy.

A family of her own

During her stay in Italy, she met her husband and they were blessed with two vibrant boys. 

They then decided to bring home their sons at their early age, leaving them with care and guidance of her parents and younger sister.

“It was so hard working abroad with children left behind,” Gina said.

But five years ago she opted to be with her children in the Philippines while  her husband remained in Italy, working in a local hotel.

The decision to be with her sons, connects with civic-religious duties

Together with her siblings and their hard-earned money, they put up a business which grew and has become the prime sustenance for their families, Gina added.

Despite her business and domestic chores, Gina has always been spiritually connected even while in Italy, her devotion to her religion also gave her time to attend  to some religious activities, social and civic works – she is an active member of Bukluran Ng Migranteng Pamilya – Eastern Samar Chapter.

“I am very happy for the achievements of my first born, Loanes “Iolo”, who graduated from the college seminary recently,” Gina further said.

Her youngest son Diego, now a Grade 11 student at St. Paul’s College in Manila, was a consistent top one student during his junior year at St. Mary’s College in Borongan.

Gina Delgado has always remained thankful for the blessing, she and her family received.

This OFW was awarded because she has managed the balance between the   impact of overseas employment while maintaining family ties.

They are model OFWs who have used the gains of working abroad to their best advantage, are achievers in both their professions and education, have made an outstanding impact in their community and successful in managing their family finances and the education of their family members.

The search is in the 14th Annual Search of MOFYA spearheaded by Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) which aims to give honor and recognition to the outstanding achievements of the OFW and their families.

OWWA is an attached agency of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) that is the lead government agency tasked to protect and promote the welfare and well-being of OFWs and their dependents.  (nbq/SDC/PIA-E. Samar with report from Penelope B. Pomida)

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References:

* Philippine Information Agency. "Pres. Duterte gives a special award to Model OFW from E. Samar." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1031128 (accessed December 04, 2019 at 12:46PM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "Pres. Duterte gives a special award to Model OFW from E. Samar." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1031128 (archived).