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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…
HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-Information for Multi-Level Sexism Classification
Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +4
We present the findings of our participation in the SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS) task, a shared task on offensive language (sexism) detection…
HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Leveraging African Low Resource TweetData for Sentiment Analysis
Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ahmad Mustapha Wali +12
We present the findings of SemEval-2023 Task 12, a shared task on sentiment analysis for low-resource African languages using Twitter dataset. The task featured three subtasks; sub…
HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech against Fulani in Nigeria
Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Gregory Maksha Wajiga, Muhammad Murtala +3
Social media platforms allow users to freely share their opinions about issues or anything they feel like. However, they also make it easier to spread hate and abusive content. The…
Deep Sequence Models for Text Classification Tasks
Saheed Salahudeen Abdullahi, Sun Yiming, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad +5
The exponential growth of data generated on the Internet in the current information age is a driving force for the digital economy. Extraction of information is the major value in…