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Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset
Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Abubakar Auwal Khalid +6
Numerous successes have been achieved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, initially using various precautionary measures like lockdowns, social distancing, and the use of face mask…
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele +23
Africa is home to over 2,000 languages from more than six language families and has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. These include 75 languages with at least…
#EndSARS Protest: Discourse and Mobilisation on Twitter
Bello Shehu Bello, Muhammad Abubakar Alhassan, Isa Inuwa-Dutse
Using the @NGRPresident Twitter handle, the Government of Nigeria issued a special directive banning Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) with immediate effect. The SARS is a special…
Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation
Idris Abdulmumin, Satya Ranjan Dash, Musa Abdullahi Dawud +7
Multi-modal Machine Translation (MMT) enables the use of visual information to enhance the quality of translations. The visual information can serve as a valuable piece of context…
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sebastian Ruder +9
Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in NLP, but most work focuses on languages with large amounts of data. We introduce the first large-scale human-an…
Stochastic Graph Transformation For Social Network Modeling
Nicolas Behr, Bello Shehu Bello, Sebastian Ehmes +1
Adaptive networks model social, physical, technical, or biological systems as attributed graphs evolving at the level of both their topology and data. They are naturally described…
Self-harm: detection and support on Twitter
Muhammad Abubakar Alhassan, Isa Inuwa-Dutse, Bello Shehu Bello +1
Since the advent of online social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, useful health-related studies have been conducted using the information posted by online participant…
Lexical analysis of automated accounts on Twitter
Isa Inuwa-Dutse, Bello Shehu Bello, Ioannis Korkontzelos
In recent years, social bots have been using increasingly more sophisticated, challenging detection strategies. While many approaches and features have been proposed, social bots e…