5th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing

Accepted papers (28)

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1. Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pretraining for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context

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2. AfriHG: News Headline Generation for African Languages

   Toyib Ogunremi, Serah sessi Akojenu, Anthony Soronnadi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani · PDF

3. AGE: Amharic, Ge’ez and English Parallel Dataset

   Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Mikiyas Girma Birbo · PDF

4. AngOFA: Leveraging OFA Embedding Initialization and Synthetic Data for Angolan Language Model

   Osvaldo Luamba Quinjica, David Ifeoluwa Adelani · PDF

5. ArSen-20: A New Benchmark for Arabic Sentiment Detection

   Yang Fang, Cheng Xu · PDF

6. Beyond English: Offensive Language Detection in Low-Resource Nigerian Languages

   Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Gregory Maksha Wajiga, Muhammad Murtala, Lukman Jibril Aliyu · PDF

7. Building a Luganda Text-to-Speech Model from Crowdsourced Data

   Sulaiman Kagumire, Andrew Katumba, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, John Quinn · PDF

8. Comparative Study of LLMs for Personal Financial Decision in Low Resource Language

   Rashidat Damilola Sikiru, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi · PDF

9. Contextual Evaluation of LLM’s Performance on Primary Education Science Learning Contents in the Yoruba Language

   Olanrewaju Israel Lawal, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi · PDF

10. Current State, Challenges and Opportunities for Natural Language Processing Research and Development in Africa: A Systematic Review

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11. Decolonizing African NLP: A Survey on Power Dynamics and Data Colonialism in Tech Development

    Nan Yan, Cheng Xu · PDF

12. EkoHate: Offensive and Hate Speech Detection for Code-switched Political discussions on Nigerian Twitter

    Comfort Eseohen Ilevbare, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Bakare Firdous Damilola, Abiola Oluwatoyin Bunmi, ADEYEMO Oluwaseyi Adesina · PDF

13. Enhancing Amharic-Llama: Integrating Task Specific and Generative Datasets

    Israel Abebe Azime, Mitiku Yohannes Fuge, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Eyasu Shiferaw Jada, Yonas Chanie, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Seid Muhie Yimam · PDF

14. Enhancing Transformer Models for Igbo Language Processing: A Critical Comparative Study

    Anthony Soronnadi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Chinazo Anebelundu, David Ifeoluwa Adelani · PDF

15. Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages

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16. Geo-parsing and Geo-Visualization of Road Traffic Crash Incident Locations from Print Media for Emergency Response and Planning

    Patricia Ojonoka Idakwo, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi, Amos DAVID · PDF

17. Geo-Semantic Analysis of Medical Research Trends in Nigeria

    Ahmad Ibrahim Ismail, Anthony Soronnadi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Bashirudeen Opeyemi Ibrahim, David Olubukola Akanji · PDF

18. Improving Question-Answering Capabilities in Large Language Models Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG): A Case Study on Yoruba Culture and Language

    Adejumobi Monjolaoluwa Joshua · PDF

19. Leveraging Geo-NLP for Enhanced Antiretroviral Drug Distribution in Nigeria: Insights from Social Media and News Data

    Bashirudeen Opeyemi Ibrahim, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ahmad Ibrahim Ismail, Anthony Soronnadi, David Olubukola Akanji · PDF

20. Luganda Speech Intent Recognition for IoT Applications

    John Trevor kasule, Sudi Murindanyi, Elvis Mugume, Andrew Katumba · PDF

21. Machine Translation for Ge’ez Language

    Aman Kassahun Wassie · PDF

22. NaijaRC: A Multi-choice Reading Comprehension Dataset for Nigerian Languages

    Anuoluwapo Aremu, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Daud Abolade, Nkechinyere Faith Aguobi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani · PDF

23. NGLUEni: Benchmarking and Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Nguni Languages

    Francois Meyer, Haiyue Song, Abhisek Chakrabarty, Jan Buys, Raj Dabre, Hideki Tanaka · PDF

24. Suffix inflectional morphology generation for Amharic text

    Gebregziabihier Nigusie · PDF

25. TangaleNLP: Building Po Tangle to English Parallel Corpora and Machine Translation of the Tangle (Tangale) Language

    Gideon George, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi · PDF

26. The Influence of Geo-Location Mentions in the Projections of a Music

    Olamide Shogbamu, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi · PDF

27. What Happens When Small Is Made Smaller? Exploring the Impact of Compression on Small Data Pretrained Language Models

    Busayo Awobade, Mardiyyah Oduwole, Steven Kolawole · PDF

28. YAD: Leveraging T5 for improved automatic diacritization of Yorùbá text

    Akindele Michael Olawole, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Aderonke Busayo Sakpere, David Ifeoluwa Adelani · PDF