📰 Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025 — accepted papers

Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, held in Vienna, Austria, July 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 28 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Vienna, Austria · 🗓 July 2025

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Multilingual NLP for African Healthcare: Bias, Translation, and Explainability Challenges ↗Ugochi Okafor7 citations
2. Beyond Metrics: Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Culturally Nuanced, Low-Resource Real-World Scenarios ↗Millicent Ochieng, Varun Gumma, Sunayana Sitaram et al.5 citations
3. Fine-tuning Whisper Tiny for Swahili ASR: Challenges and Recommendations for Low-Resource Speech Recognition ↗Avinash Kumar Sharma, Manas Pandya, Arpit Shukla5 citations
4. Enhancing AI-Driven Farming Advisory in Kenya with Efficient RAG Agents via Quantized Fine-Tuned Language Models ↗Theophilus Lincoln Owiti, Andrew Kiprop Kipkebut3 citations
5. Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions ↗Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete et al.2 citations
6. Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLMYazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas et al.2 citations · our summary
7. Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa ↗Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam et al.2 citations
8. HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin et al.1 citation
9. MOZ-Smishing: A Benchmark Dataset for Detecting Mobile Money Frauds ↗Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Saide M. Saide, Rui Sousa-Silva et al.1 citation
10. Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages ↗Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer1 citation

All accepted papers (28)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Multilingual NLP for African Healthcare: Bias, Translation, and Explainability Challenges ↗Ugochi Okafor7 citations
2. Beyond Metrics: Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Culturally Nuanced, Low-Resource Real-World Scenarios ↗Millicent Ochieng, Varun Gumma, Sunayana Sitaram et al.5 citations
3. Fine-tuning Whisper Tiny for Swahili ASR: Challenges and Recommendations for Low-Resource Speech Recognition ↗Avinash Kumar Sharma, Manas Pandya, Arpit Shukla5 citations
4. Enhancing AI-Driven Farming Advisory in Kenya with Efficient RAG Agents via Quantized Fine-Tuned Language Models ↗Theophilus Lincoln Owiti, Andrew Kiprop Kipkebut3 citations
5. Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions ↗Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete et al.2 citations
6. Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLMYazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas et al.2 citations · our summary
7. Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa ↗Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam et al.2 citations
8. HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin et al.1 citation
9. MOZ-Smishing: A Benchmark Dataset for Detecting Mobile Money Frauds ↗Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Saide M. Saide, Rui Sousa-Silva et al.1 citation
10. Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages ↗Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer1 citation
11. Retrieval-Augmented Generation Meets Local Languages for Improved Drug Information Access and Comprehension. ↗Ahmad Ibrahim Ismail, Bashirudeen Opeyemi Ibrahim, Olubayo Adekanmbi et al.1 citation
12. Supervised Machine Learning based Amharic Text Complexity Classification Using Automatic Annotator ToolGebregziabihier Nigusie1 citation · our summary
13. Beyond Generalization :Evaluating Multilingual LLMs for Yorùbá Animal Health Translation ↗Godwin Adegbehingbe, Anthony Soronnadi, Ife Adebara et al.
14. Building a Functional Machine Translation Corpus for Kpelle ↗Kweku Andoh Yamoah, Jackson Weako, Emmanuel Dorley
15. Challenges and Limitations in Gathering Resources for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Medumba ↗Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Mbuh Christabel, Njeunga Yopa
16. Challenging Multimodal LLMs with African Standardized Exams: A Document VQA Evaluation ↗Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, Emmanuel Bolarinwa et al.
17. Designing and Contextualising Probes for African Languages ↗Wisdom Aduah, Francois Meyer
18. Evaluating Robustness of LLMs to Typographical Noise in Yorùbá QA ↗Paul Okewunmi, Favour James, Oluwadunsin Fajemila
19. Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASRHellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmakiour summary
20. In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits ↗Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki et al.
21. On the Tolerance of Repetition Before Performance Degradation in Kiswahili Automatic Speech Recognition ↗Kathleen Siminyu, Kathy Reid, Rebecca Ryakitimbo et al.
22. Pretraining Strategies using Monolingual and Parallel Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation ↗Idriss Nguepi Nguefack, Mara Finkelstein, Toadoum Sari Sakayo
23. SabiYarn: Advancing Low Resource Languages with Multitask NLP Pretraining ↗Jeffrey Otoibhi, Oduguwa Damilola, Okpare David
24. Story Generation with Large Language Models for African Languages ↗Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Jan Buys
25. Swahili News Classification: Performance, Challenges, and Explainability Across ML, DL, and Transformers ↗Manas Pandya, Avinash Kumar Sharma, Arpit Shukla

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (4)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLMWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingYazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas, et al.2025 · 18 citations
2. The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual TokenizationWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingJessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim, et al.2025 · 12 citations
3. Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASRWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingHellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmaki2025 · 1 citation
4. Supervised Machine Learning based Amharic Text Complexity Classification Using Automatic Annotator ToolWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingGebregziabihier Nigusie2025 · 1 citation

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

Semitic languages (3)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)🌱Low-resource languages (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)✂️Tokenization & segmentation (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (4)🖥️Computer Science (4)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🔬Canadian Institute for Advanced ResearchToronto · Canada1 work here🤝Gates FoundationSeattle · United States1 work here🎓Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates1 work here🔬Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMontreal · Canada1 work here🎓McGill UniversityMontreal · Canada1 work here🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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