David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages ACL 2026 AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages ACL 2026 AfriMTEB and AfriE5: Benchmarking and Adapting Text Embedding Models for African Languages EACL 2026 MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder-LLM Integration in Cross-Lingual Reasoning EACL 2026 Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic Dialect EACL 2026 The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual Tokenization EACL 2026 IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models NAACL 2025 WorldCuisines: A Massive-Scale Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Visual Question Answering on Global Cuisines NAACL 2025 Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation ACL 2025 AfroBench: How Good are Large Language Models on African Languages? ACL 2025 McGill-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection ACL 2025 SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection ACL 2025 Findings of the WMT25 Shared Task on Automated Translation Evaluation Systems: Linguistic Diversity is Challenging and References Still Help EMNLP 2025 INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages ACL 2025 Ibom NLP: A Step Toward Inclusive Natural Language Processing for Nigeria’s Minority Languages IJCNLP 2025 McGill-NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection SEMEVAL 2025 Does Generative AI speak Nigerian-Pidgin?: Issues about Representativeness and Bias for Multilingualism in LLMs NAACL 2025 AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages NAACL 2025 SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection SEMEVAL 2025 Ibom NLP: A Step Toward Inclusive Natural Language Processing for Nigeria’s Minority Languages AACL 2025 Warmup Generations: A Task-Agnostic Approach for Guiding Sequence-to-Sequence Learning with Unsupervised Initial State Generation ACL 2025 BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages ACL 2025 SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages? EMNLP 2025 AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages EMNLP 2025 Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead EMNLP 2025 Multilingual Language Model Pretraining using Machine-translated Data EMNLP 2025 AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text EMNLP 2025 Reassessing Speech Translation for Low-Resource Languages: Do LLMs Redefine the State-of-the-Art Against Cascaded Models? EMNLP 2025 Training of LLM-Based List-Wise Multilingual Reranker EMNLP 2025 Evaluating WMT 2025 Metrics Shared Task Submissions on the SSA-MTE African Challenge Set EMNLP 2025 MINERS: Multilingual Language Models as Semantic Retrievers EMNLP 2024 ÌròyìnSpeech: A Multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus COLING 2024 Mitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach COLING 2024 EkoHate: Abusive Language and Hate Speech Detection for Code-switched Political Discussions on Nigerian Twitter NAACL 2024 SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects EACL 2024 Comparing LLM prompting with Cross-lingual transfer performance on Indigenous and Low-resource Brazilian Languages NAACL 2024 AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages NAACL 2024 Machine Translation Hallucination Detection for Low and High Resource Languages using Large Language Models EMNLP 2024 CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark NIPS 2024 McGill NLP Group Submission to the MRL 2024 Shared Task: Ensembling Enhances Effectiveness of Multilingual Small LMs EMNLP 2024 Are LLMs Breaking MT Metrics? Results of the WMT24 Metrics Shared Task EMNLP 2024 Evaluating WMT 2024 Metrics Shared Task Submissions on AfriMTE (the African Challenge Set) EMNLP 2024 Voices Unheard: NLP Resources and Models for Yorùbá Regional Dialects EMNLP 2024 SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) SEMEVAL 2023 MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages AACL 2023 MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African languages ACL 2023 BLOOM+1: Adding Language Support to BLOOM for Zero-Shot Prompting ACL 2023 NollySenti: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Machine Translation for Nigerian Movie Sentiment Classification ACL 2023 SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) ACL 2023 Varepsilon kú mask: Integrating Yorùbá cultural greetings into machine translation EACL 2023 Better Quality Pre-training Data and T5 Models for African Languages EMNLP 2023 AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages EMNLP 2023 AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages EMNLP 2023 Findings of the 1st Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval at MRL 2023 EMNLP 2023 MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages IJCNLP 2023 MCSE: Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings NAACL 2022 A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation NAACL 2022 Is BERT Robust to Label Noise? A Study on Learning with Noisy Labels in Text Classification ACL 2022 Pre-Trained Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Models: A Hope for Low-Resource Language Translation? ACL 2022 Findings of the WMT’22 Shared Task on Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages EMNLP 2022 MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition EMNLP 2022 Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to African Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning COLING 2022 Few-Shot Pidgin Text Adaptation via Contrastive Fine-Tuning COLING 2022 Preventing Author Profiling through Zero-Shot Multilingual Back-Translation EMNLP 2021 Privacy Guarantees for De-Identifying Text Transformations INTERSPEECH 2020