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most citedSemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)

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SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +18

We present our shared task on text-based emotion detection, covering more than 30 languages from seven distinct language families. These languages are predominantly low-resource an…

cs.CL2025

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45

People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2024

Building Better: Avoiding Pitfalls in Developing Language Resources when Data is Scarce

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad

Language is a form of symbolic capital that affects people's lives in many ways (Bourdieu1977,1991). As a powerful means of communication, it reflects identities, cultures, traditi…

cs.CL2024

SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla +14

We present the first shared task on Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR). While earlier shared tasks primarily focused on semantic similarity, we instead investigate the broader phen…

cs.CL2024

SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla +24

Exploring and quantifying semantic relatedness is central to representing language and holds significant implications across various NLP tasks. While earlier NLP research primarily…