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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.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…

cs.CL2025

HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin +9

Hausa Natural Language Processing (NLP) has gained increasing attention in recent years, yet remains understudied as a low-resource language despite having over 120 million first-l…

cs.CL2025

Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language

Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahmed, Tadesse Destaw Belay +11

This work explores fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Amharic, a low-resource language, to improve transcription accuracy. While the foundati…

cs.CL2025

Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa

Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam +5

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has allowed them to be proficient in various tasks, including content generation. However, their unregulated usage can lead to malic…