17 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…