5 papers
The Illusion of Cross-Lingual Safety in Low-Resource Languages
Abigail Oppong, P Sam Sahil, Tadesse Destaw Belay +12
Safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) is largely developed in English, assuming these safeguards generalize across multilingual settings. However, this assumption remain…
AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages
Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang +16
Assessing the veracity of a claim made online is a complex and important task with real-world implications. When these claims are directed at communities with limited access to inf…
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…
Mitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach
Garry Kuwanto, Eno-Abasi E. Urua, Priscilla Amondi Amuok +21
Low-resource languages often face challenges in acquiring high-quality language data due to the reliance on translation-based methods, which can introduce the translationese effect…
A multilingual dataset for offensive language and hate speech detection for hausa, yoruba and igbo languages
Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Gregory Maksha Wajiga, Muhammad Murtala
The proliferation of online offensive language necessitates the development of effective detection mechanisms, especially in multilingual contexts. This study addresses the challen…