Papers
Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic Dialect
Hadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired Learners
Kausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde et al.
Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI Evaluation
Anuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion et al.
SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan Languages
Solomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma et al.
Real-Time Spoken Instruction Following and Translation in Ugandan Languages
Benjamin Akera, Tim Wenjie Hu, Patrick Walukagga et al.
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.
Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara
Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.
Morphologically-informed Somali Lemmatization Corpus built with a Web-based Crowdsourcing Platform
Abdifatah Ahmed Gedi, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Yusuf A. Yusuf et al.
Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAG
Grace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoa
Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African Languages
Hiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuat
Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages
Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
Advancing African NLP: UDMorph and flexiPipe
Maarten Janssen
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.
EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum Education
Israel Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmy
The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual Tokenization
Jessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim et al.
Language Choice in Nigerian Social Media Hate Speech
Nneoma C Udeze, Rob Voigt
Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts
Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani et al.
Developing an English–Efik Corpus and Machine Translation System for Digitization Inclusion
Offiong Bassey Edet, Mbuotidem Awak, Emmanuel Ubene Oyo-Ita et al.
AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African Languages
Mardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo et al.
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
InstructLR: A Scalable Approach to Create Instruction Dataset for Under-Resourced Languages
Mamadou K. Keita, Sebastien Diarra, Christopher M Homan et al.
M-MiniGPT4: Multilingual VLLM Alignment via Translated Data
Seung Hun Eddie Han, Youssef Mohamed, Mohamed Elhoseiny
Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP
Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.