Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025: all accepted papers
- Multilingual NLP for African Healthcare: Bias, Translation, and Explainability Challenges ↗Ugochi Okafor7 citations
- Beyond Metrics: Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Culturally Nuanced, Low-Resource Real-World Scenarios ↗Millicent Ochieng, Varun Gumma, Sunayana Sitaram et al.5 citations
- Fine-tuning Whisper Tiny for Swahili ASR: Challenges and Recommendations for Low-Resource Speech Recognition ↗Avinash Kumar Sharma, Manas Pandya, Arpit Shukla5 citations
- Enhancing AI-Driven Farming Advisory in Kenya with Efficient RAG Agents via Quantized Fine-Tuned Language Models ↗Theophilus Lincoln Owiti, Andrew Kiprop Kipkebut3 citations
- Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions ↗Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete et al.2 citations
- Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLMYazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas et al.2 citations · our summary
- Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa ↗Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam et al.2 citations
- HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin et al.1 citation
- 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
- Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages ↗Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer1 citation
- 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
- Supervised Machine Learning based Amharic Text Complexity Classification Using Automatic Annotator ToolGebregziabihier Nigusie1 citation · our summary
- Beyond Generalization :Evaluating Multilingual LLMs for Yorùbá Animal Health Translation ↗Godwin Adegbehingbe, Anthony Soronnadi, Ife Adebara et al.
- Building a Functional Machine Translation Corpus for Kpelle ↗Kweku Andoh Yamoah, Jackson Weako, Emmanuel Dorley
- Challenges and Limitations in Gathering Resources for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Medumba ↗Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Mbuh Christabel, Njeunga Yopa
- Challenging Multimodal LLMs with African Standardized Exams: A Document VQA Evaluation ↗Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, Emmanuel Bolarinwa et al.
- Designing and Contextualising Probes for African Languages ↗Wisdom Aduah, Francois Meyer
- Evaluating Robustness of LLMs to Typographical Noise in Yorùbá QA ↗Paul Okewunmi, Favour James, Oluwadunsin Fajemila
- Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASRHellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmakiour summary
- In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits ↗Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki et al.
- On the Tolerance of Repetition Before Performance Degradation in Kiswahili Automatic Speech Recognition ↗Kathleen Siminyu, Kathy Reid, Rebecca Ryakitimbo et al.
- Pretraining Strategies using Monolingual and Parallel Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation ↗Idriss Nguepi Nguefack, Mara Finkelstein, Toadoum Sari Sakayo
- SabiYarn: Advancing Low Resource Languages with Multitask NLP Pretraining ↗Jeffrey Otoibhi, Oduguwa Damilola, Okpare David
- Story Generation with Large Language Models for African Languages ↗Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Jan Buys
- Swahili News Classification: Performance, Challenges, and Explainability Across ML, DL, and Transformers ↗Manas Pandya, Avinash Kumar Sharma, Arpit Shukla
- Y-NQ: English-Yorùbá Evaluation dataset for Open-Book Reading Comprehension with Open-Ended Questions ↗Marta R. Costa-jussà, Joy Chen, Ife Adebara et al.
- Yankari: Monolingual Yoruba Dataset ↗Maro Akpobi
- YodiV3: NLP for Togolese Languages with Eyaa-Tom Dataset and the Lom Metric ↗Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Kodjo François Xegbe, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman et al.
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