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Red-Teaming Large Language Models in Low-Resource African Languages: A Case Study of Yoruba and Nigerian Pidgin
Paula Chikaodinaka Anyanwu, Valdini Douglace Lemofouet, Blessing Ngozi Uzor +7
As large language models (LLMs) become more widespread in Africa, their safety in low-resource languages remains largely untested since most red-teaming work focuses on English. Th…
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…
LLM Safety Alignment in Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
Valdini Douglace Lemofouet, Blessing Ngozi Uzor, Paula Chikaodinaka Anyanwu +9
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved substantial progress in safety alignment, yet their safety guarantees remain significantly weaker in low-resource and multilingual settin…
AfriSUD: A Dependency Treebank Collection for Evaluating Models on African Languages
Happy Buzaaba, Cheikh Mouhamadou Bamba Dione, David Ifeoluwa Adelani +15
Despite their linguistic diversity and global significance, African languages remain underrepresented in research and resources to support NLP. We aim to bridge this gap by introdu…
AfriScience-MT: Towards Decolonizing Science in Africa through Text Translation
Idris Abdulmumin, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +11
The dominance of colonial languages in African education and scientific communication limits how hundreds of millions of speakers of African languages access and produce scientific…
Temporal Simultaneity Predicts Annotation Quality in Sentiment Corpora
Idris Abdulmumin, Mokgadi Penelope Matloga, Tadesse Destaw Belay +5
Annotation quality is difficult to sustain when campaigns span weeks or months with small annotator pools. We present a Setswana sentiment dataset of 3,565 tweets annotated by thre…
AFRILANGTUTOR: Advancing Language Tutoring and Culture Education in Low-Resource Languages with Large Language Models
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Shahriar Kabir Nahin, Israel Abebe Azime +6
How can language learning systems be developed for languages that lack sufficient training resources? This challenge is increasingly faced by developers across the African continen…
Going PLACES: Participatory Localized Red Teaming for Text-to-Image Safety in the Global South
Charvi Rastogi, Mukul Bhutani, Minsuk Kahng +13
Despite the global deployment of text-to-image (T2I) models, their safety frameworks are largely calibrated to a Western-centric default, creating significant vulnerabilities for t…
Beyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin +6
Disagreement in annotation is a common phenomenon in the development of NLP datasets and serves as a valuable source of insight. While majority voting remains the dominant strategy…
Bias Redistribution in Visual Machine Unlearning: Does Forgetting One Group Harm Another?
Yunusa Haruna, Adamu Lawan, Ibrahim Haruna Abdulhamid +4
Machine unlearning enables models to selectively forget training data, driven by privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. However, its fairness implications remain underexplored:…
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…
NaijaS2ST: A Multi-Accent Benchmark for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Nigerian Languages
Marie Maltais, Yejin Jeon, Min Ma +7
Speech translation for low-resource languages remains fundamentally limited by the scarcity of high-quality, diverse parallel speech data, a challenge that is especially pronounced…
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…
DimStance: Multilingual Datasets for Dimensional Stance Analysis
Jonas Becker, Liang-Chih Yu, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +14
Stance detection is an established task that classifies an author's attitude toward a specific target into categories such as Favor, Neutral, and Against. Beyond categorical stance…
PingPong: A Natural Benchmark for Multi-Turn Code-Switching Dialogues
Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Hanif Muhammad Zhafran, Farid Adilazuarda +6
Code-switching is a widespread practice among the world's multilingual majority, yet few benchmarks accurately reflect its complexity in everyday communication. We present PingPong…
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
Dataset Creation and Baseline Models for Sexism Detection in Hausa
Fatima Adam Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Muhammad Hassan, Isa Inuwa-Dutse
Sexism reinforces gender inequality and social exclusion by perpetuating stereotypes, bias, and discriminatory norms. Noting how online platforms enable various forms of sexism to…
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for African Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Kedir Yassin Husse +7
ASR has achieved remarkable global progress, yet African low-resource languages remain rigorously underrepresented, producing barriers to digital inclusion across the continent wit…
HausaMovieReview: A Benchmark Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Low-Resource African Language
Asiya Ibrahim Zanga, Salisu Mamman Abdulrahman, Abubakar Ado +6
The development of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for low-resource languages is critically hindered by the scarcity of annotated datasets. This paper addresses this fundam…
The Rise of AfricaNLP: A Survey of Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis
Tadesse Destaw Belay, Kedir Yassin Hussen, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam +11
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is undergoing constant transformation, as Large Language Models (LLMs) are driving daily breakthroughs in research and practice. In this regard, t…
Evaluating Deep Learning Models for African Wildlife Image Classification: From DenseNet to Vision Transformers
Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Umar Sani Muhammad, Bilqisu Ismail +5
Wildlife populations in Africa face severe threats, with vertebrate numbers declining by over 65% in the past five decades. In response, image classification using deep learning ha…
The State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges
Kedir Yassin Hussen, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Abinew Ali Ayele +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Natural Language Processing (NLP), but their benefits are largely absent for Africa's 2,000 low-resource languages. This paper compara…
Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions
Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete +6
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies have transformed human-computer interaction; however, low-resource languages in Africa remain significantly underrepresented in both…
POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +40
Online polarization poses a growing challenge for democratic discourse, yet most computational social science research remains monolingual, culturally narrow, or event-specific. We…