most citedThe State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges

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cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages

Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey

Word Error Rate (WER) mischaracterizes ASR models' performance for African languages by combining phonological, tone, and other linguistic errors into a single lexical error. By co…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2025

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…