4 papers
TukaBench: A Culturally Grounded Jailbreak Benchmark for African Languages
Victor Akinode, Senyu Li, Wassim Hamidouche +3
Safety evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains heavily English-centric, leaving Low-Resource Languages (LRLs), particularly African ones, critically underexplored. We in…
VocalTweets: Investigating Social Media Offensive Language Among Nigerian Musicians
Sunday Oluyele, Juwon Akingbade, Victor Akinode
Musicians frequently use social media to express their opinions, but they often convey different messages in their music compared to their posts online. Some utilize these platform…
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus
Josh Meyer, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Edresson Casanova +16
BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. The corpus contains up to 86 hours of aligned, studio quality 48kHz single sp…
MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig +58
We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named en…