📰 Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC 2026 — papers

The works of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC published in 2026 that our library holds (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)): 6 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

All works of the year (13)

The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Morpho-Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Ògè Folk Narratives with a Focus on Nominal Structure ↗Priscilla Adenuga
2. Benchmarking Text Embedding Models for South African LanguagesOckert de Villiers, Roald Eiselenour summary
3. Comparing Source Language Selection Strategies for Multi-Source Cross-Lingual Transfer to African Languages ↗Tewodros Kederalah Idris, Roald Eiselen, Prasenjit Mitra
4. Extension of Linguistic Resources for South African Languages: Part-of-Speech Annotated Domain-Specific Data ↗Tanja Gaustad, Roald Eiselen, Cindy Arlene McKellar
5. From Script to Semantics: Prompting Strategies for African NLIAnuj Tiwari, Terry Oko-odion, Hannah Nwokochaour summary
6. Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in AfrikaansSusan Lotz, Rik van Noord, Gertjan van Noordour summary
7. HaYo: Repurposing DiaSafety Dataset for Dialogue Safety Evaluation in Hausa and Yoruba ↗Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Bolade Deborah Ashaolu, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan et al.
8. Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented GenerationAbel Alemu Jotie, Prasenjit Mitraour summary
9. Less can be More: Towards a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Wav2Vec2 XLSR for Low-Resource Cape Verdean Creole ASR ↗Mateus Neves Andrade, Mouhamadou Lamine Ba, Idy Diop et al.
10. Mining Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language Data: Comparing Elicitation Strategies for Hausa and Fongbe ↗Pericles Adjovi, Prasenjit Mitra, Roald Eiselen
11. Open but Unvetted: The Ethics of African Language Data ↗Ernst A.P. van Gassen
12. Reclaiming African Voices: Surveying Indigenous Writing Systems for Inclusive NLPMamady Traore, Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadatour summary
13. The Hundzula Retreat-Based Infrastructure Model for African Natural Language ProcessingJohannes Sibeko, Seani Rananga, Neo N. Putini et al.our summary

📄 Works with our summary in our library (6)

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

1. Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented GenerationResources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LRECAbel Alemu Jotie, Prasenjit Mitra2026
2. Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in AfrikaansResources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LRECSusan Lotz, Rik van Noord, Gertjan van Noord2026
3. The Hundzula Retreat-Based Infrastructure Model for African Natural Language ProcessingResources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LRECJohannes Sibeko, Seani Rananga, Neo N. Putini, et al.2026
4. From Script to Semantics: Prompting Strategies for African NLIResources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LRECAnuj Tiwari, Terry Oko-odion, Hannah Nwokocha2026
5. Reclaiming African Voices: Surveying Indigenous Writing Systems for Inclusive NLPResources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LRECMamady Traore, Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadat2026
6. Benchmarking Text Embedding Models for South African LanguagesResources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LRECOckert de Villiers, Roald Eiselen2026

🧭 Top topics

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

🧠Language models & pretraining (1)🧮Reasoning (1)Semitic languages (1)🔍Information retrieval & search (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (6)🖥️Computer Science (6)

🧑‍🔬 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.

🎓Université du Québec à MontréalMontreal · Canada1 work here🎓University of GroningenGroningen · Netherlands1 work here🎓Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch · South Africa1 work here🎓North-West UniversityPotchefstroom · South Africa1 work here🎓Carnegie Mellon University AfricaKigali · Rwanda1 work here🎓Noida Institute of Engineering and TechnologyGreater Noida · India1 work here🎓University of PretoriaPretoria · South Africa1 work here🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1 work here🎓University of KwaZulu-NatalDurban · South Africa1 work here

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