📰 Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 30 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, Morocco · 🗓 March 2026

All accepted papers (30)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African LanguagesYasmin Moslem, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Amanuel Gizachew Abebe2 citations · our summary
2. The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual TokenizationJessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim et al.2 citations · our summary
3. Advancing African NLP: UDMorph and flexiPipe ↗Maarten Janssen
4. AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African LanguagesMardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo et al.our summary
5. Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAGGrace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoaour summary
6. Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP ↗Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.
7. Developing an English–Efik Corpus and Machine Translation System for Digitization Inclusion ↗Offiong Bassey Edet, Mbuotidem Awak, Emmanuel Ubene Oyo-Ita et al.
8. EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum EducationIsrael Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmyour summary
9. Enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Maternal and Reproductive Health: Fine-Tuning and Real-World Evaluation in Wolof ↗Ertony Basilwango, Yann Le Beux, Oche David Ankeli et al.
10. Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African LanguagesHiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuatour summary
11. Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired LearnersKausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde et al.our summary
12. Eyaa-Tom 26, Yodi-Mantissa and Lom Bench: A Community Benchmark for TTS in Local Languages ↗Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Messan Agbobli et al.
13. Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small ↗Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Hadiza Ali Umar et al.
14. InstructLR: A Scalable Approach to Create Instruction Dataset for Under-Resourced Languages ↗Mamadou K. Keita, Sebastien Diarra, Christopher Homan et al.
15. Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara ↗Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.
16. Language Choice in Nigerian Social Media Hate SpeechNneoma C Udeze, Rob Voigtour summary
17. Leveraging CoHere Multilingual Embeddings and Inverted Softmax Retrieval for Automatic Parallel Sentence Alignment in Low-Resource Languages ↗Abubakar Auwal Khalid, Salisu Musa Borodo, Amina Abubakar Imam
18. Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages ↗Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
19. M-MiniGPT4: Multilingual VLLM Alignment via Translated Data ↗Seung Hun Eddie Han, Youssef Mohamed, Mohamed Elhoseiny
20. Morphologically-informed Somali Lemmatization Corpus built with a Web-based Crowdsourcing Platform ↗Abdifatah Ahmed Gedi, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Yusuf A. Yusuf et al.
21. Power Asymmetries, Bias, and AI, a Reflection of Society on Low-Resourced Languages - African Languages as Case Study ↗Simbiat Ajao
22. Real-Time Spoken Instruction Following and Translation in Ugandan Languages ↗Benjamin Akera, Tim Wenjie Hu, Patrick Walukagga et al.
23. Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts ↗Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani et al.
24. SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan LanguagesSolomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma et al.our summary
25. Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI EvaluationAnuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion et al.our summary

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (10)

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

1. AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African LanguagesWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingYasmin Moslem, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Amanuel Gizachew Abebe2026 · 2 citations
2. AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African LanguagesWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingMardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo, et al.2026 · 2 citations
3. SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan LanguagesWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingSolomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, et al.2026 · 1 citation
4. Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic DialectWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingHadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelani2026 · 1 citation
5. Language Choice in Nigerian Social Media Hate SpeechWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingNneoma C Udeze, Rob Voigt2026 · 1 citation
6. Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired LearnersWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingKausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, et al.2026
7. Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAGWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingGrace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoa2026
8. EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum EducationWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingIsrael Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmy2026
9. Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African LanguagesWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingHiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuat2026
10. Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI EvaluationWorkshop on African Natural Language ProcessingAnuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

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

📏Evaluation & benchmarks (4)🔁Machine translation (3)😊Sentiment & emotion (1)🗨️Dialogue systems (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)🌱Low-resource languages (1)🧮Reasoning (1)Semitic languages (1)🔍Information retrieval & search (1)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (1)🖼️Vision & language (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (10)🎭Arts and Humanities (9)🩺Medicine (1)

🧑‍🔬 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.

🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States1 work here🎓Oregon State UniversityCorvallis · United States1 work here🎓Trinity College DublinDublin · Ireland1 work here🔬African Institute for Mathematical SciencesLimbe · Cameroon1 work here🎓Noida Institute of Engineering and TechnologyGreater Noida · India1 work here🎓Imperial College LondonLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of Maryland, College ParkCollege Park · United States1 work here🎓Makerere UniversityKampala · Uganda1 work here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1 work here🎓University of California, DavisDavis · United States1 work here

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