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Evaluating the Effect of Linguistic Relatedness on Cross-Lingual Transfer in Large Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition
Andrei Florian, Cynthia Jayne Amol, Hope Kerubo Ombaba +6
Extending automatic speech recognition (ASR) to low-resource African languages is constrained by the prohibitive demands of data collection at scale. A promising direction is to le…
SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)
Liang-Chih Yu, Jonas Becker, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +14
We present the SemEval-2026 shared task on Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA), which improves traditional ABSA by modeling sentiment along valence-arousal (VA) d…
AfriVoices-KE: A Multilingual Speech Dataset for Kenyan Languages
Lilian Wanzare, Cynthia Amol, Ezekiel Maina +14
AfriVoices-KE is a large-scale multilingual speech dataset comprising approximately 3,000 hours of audio across five Kenyan languages: Dholuo, Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Maasai, and Somali.…
SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +31
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labe…
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45
People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…
Building low-resource African language corpora: A case study of Kidawida, Kalenjin and Dholuo
Audrey Mbogho, Quin Awuor, Andrew Kipkebut +2
Natural Language Processing is a crucial frontier in artificial intelligence, with broad applications in many areas, including public health, agriculture, education, and commerce.…
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele +24
Hate speech and abusive language are global phenomena that need socio-cultural background knowledge to be understood, identified, and moderated. However, in many regions of the Glo…
Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) Dataset: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Bridging Communication Barrier among the Deaf Learners
Lilian Wanzare, Joel Okutoyi, Maurine Kang'ahi +1
Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) is the primary language used by the deaf community in Kenya. It is the medium of instruction from Pre-primary 1 to university among deaf learners, facili…
State of NLP in Kenya: A Survey
Cynthia Jayne Amol, Everlyn Asiko Chimoto, Rose Delilah Gesicho +13
Kenya, known for its linguistic diversity, faces unique challenges and promising opportunities in advancing Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies, particularly for its und…
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
Ebbie Awino, Lilian Wanzare, Lawrence Muchemi +5
Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under-resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack suff…
Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks
Barack Wanjawa, Lilian Wanzare, Florence Indede +3
Indigenous African languages are categorized as under-served in Natural Language Processing. They therefore experience poor digital inclusivity and information access. The processi…
KenSwQuAD -- A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language
Barack W. Wanjawa, Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Florence Indede +3
The need for Question Answering datasets in low resource languages is the motivation of this research, leading to the development of Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset, K…
Detecting Everyday Scenarios in Narrative Texts
Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Michael Roth, Manfred Pinkal
Script knowledge consists of detailed information on everyday activities. Such information is often taken for granted in text and needs to be inferred by readers. Therefore, script…