AfricaNLP

Publications

2023

Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Improving African Language Identification with Multi-task Learning. AfricaNLP (2023)
Rendani Mbuvha, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Tendani Mutavhatsindi, Tshimangadzo Rakhuhu, Aluwani Mauda, Tshifhiwa Joshua Maumela, Andisani Masindi, Seani Rananga, Vukosi Marivate, Tshilidzi Marwala
MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda. AfricaNLP (2023)
Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Muhidin A. Mohamed
Lexicon and Rule-based Word Lemmatization Approach for Somali Language. AfricaNLP (2023)
Isaac Owomugisha, Benjamin Akera, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn
Multilingual Model and Data Resources for Text-To-Speech in Ugandan Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Cheng Xu, Nan Yan
AROT-COV23: A Dataset of 500K Original Arabic Tweets on COVID-19. AfricaNLP (2023)
Moayad Elamin, Yonas Chanie, Paul Ewuzie, Samuel Rutunda
Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Kinyarwanda, Swahili, and Luganda: Advancing ASR in Select East African Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Pierrette Mahoro Mastel, Ester Namara, Aime Munezero, Richard Kagame, Zihan Wang, Allan Anzagira, Akshat Gupta, Jema David Ndibwile
Natural Language Understanding for African Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Shester Gueuwou, Kate Takyi, Mathias Müller, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Richard Adade, Rose-Mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening
AfriSign: Machine Translation for African Sign Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Paul Rayson, Ignatius Ezeani, Mo El-Haj, Doris Chinedu Asogwa, Chidimma Lilian Okpalla, Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu
Igboner 2.0: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via Projection. AfricaNLP (2023)
Nuredin Ali Abdelkadir, Negasi Haile Abadi, Asmelash Teka Hadgu
Error Analysis of Tigrinya - English Machine Translation Systems. AfricaNLP (2023)
Abubakar Yakubu Zandam, Fatima Adam Muhammad, Isa Inuwa-Dutse
Online Threats Detection in Hausa Language. AfricaNLP (2023)
Tobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Sahib Singh
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names. AfricaNLP (2023)
Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sanchit Gandhi, Lewis Tunstall, Abubakar Abid, Joshua Meyer, Quentin Lhoest, Pete Allen, Patrick von Platen, Douwe Kiela, Yacine Jernite, Julien Chaumond, Merve Noyan, Omar Sanseviero
AfroDigits: A Community-Driven Spoken Digit Dataset for African Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Colin Leong, Herumb Shandilya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Joel Mathew, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Oreen Yousuf, Zainab Akinjobi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Shamsudeen Muhammad, Steven Kolawole, Younwoo Choi, Tosin P. Adewumi
Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chris Chinenye Emezue
Koya: A Recommender System for Large Language Model Selection. AfricaNLP (2023)
Samuel Rutunda, Kleber Kabanda, Adriana Stan
Kinyarwanda TTS: Using a multi-speaker dataset to build a Kinyarwanda TTS model. AfricaNLP (2023)
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, AfricaNLP@ICLR 2023, Kigali, Rwanda, May 1, 2023 AfricaNLP (2023)
Asfaw Gedamu Haileslasie, Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Solomon Teferra Abate
Tigrinya Dialect Identification. AfricaNLP (2023)
Ussen Kimanuka, Ciira Wa Maina, Osman Büyük
Speech Recognition Datasets for Low-resource Congolese Languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Christine Mwase, Odunayo Ogundepo, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Akintunde Oladipo, Doreen Nixdorf, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages. AfricaNLP (2023)
Idris Akinade, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Clement Odoje, Dietrich Klakow
ε kú : Integrating YorùBá Cultural greetings into Machine Translation. AfricaNLP (2023)
Rozina Lucy Myoya, Fiskani Banda, Vukosi Marivate, Abiodun Modupe
Fine-Tuning Multilingual Pretrained African Language Models. AfricaNLP (2023)
Clemencia Siro, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi
Evaluating the Robustness of Machine Reading Comprehension Models to Low Resource Entity Renaming. AfricaNLP (2023)
Isa Inuwa-Dutse
The first large scale collection of diverse Hausa language datasets. AfricaNLP (2023)
Jessica Ojo, Kelechi Ogueji
How good are Commercial Large Language Models on African Languages? AfricaNLP (2023)
Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi
Prediction of the ability and motivation to adopt Reproductive Health Behavioural change using anonymized customer center audio data. AfricaNLP (2023)
Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ahmad Mustapha Wali, Amina Abubakar Imam, Aliyu Rabiu Shuaibu, Aliyu Yusuf, Nur Bala Rabiu, Musa Bello, Shamsuddeen Umaru Adamu, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Murja Sani Gadanya, Sanah Abdullahi Muaz, Mahmoud Said Ahmad, Abdulkadir Abdullahi, Abdulmalik Yusuf Jamoh
HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Leveraging African Low Resource TweetData for Sentiment Analysis. AfricaNLP (2023)
Kolawole Olatubosun
Yoruba and Unicode: An Overview of a Problem. AfricaNLP (2023)
Falia Ramanantsoa
VoxMg: An Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for Malagasy. AfricaNLP (2023)
Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Matthew Dean Stutzman, Stephen D. Richardson, David R. Mortensen
African Substrates Rather Than European Lexifiers to Augment African-diaspora Creole Translation. AfricaNLP (2023)
Paul Azunre, Naafi Dasana Ibrahim
Breaking the Low-Resource Barrier for Dagbani ASR: From Data Collection to Modeling. AfricaNLP (2023)

2021

2nd AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, AfricaNLP@EACL 2021, Virtual Event, April 19, 2021 AfricaNLP (2021)