📰 Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026: all accepted papers

30 papers · the most cited first · ← Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026

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
26. Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic DialectHadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelaniour summary
27. Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Low-Resource Swahili Sentiment Analysis: Multi-LLM Judging with Human Validation ↗Samuel Gyamfi, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Yankı Öztürk et al.
28. Using Subword-Embeddings for Bilingual Lexicon Induction in Bantu Languages ↗Adrian Breiding, Alan Akbik
29. Where Are We at with Automatic Speech Recognition for the Bambara Language? ↗Seydou Diallo, Yacouba Diarra, Mamadou K. Keita et al.
30. ÒWE-Voice: An Evaluation of Monolingual and Multilingual ASR Model Using Yoruba Proverb Speech Dataset ↗Daud Abolade

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