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most citedHausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Leveraging African Low Resource TweetData for Sentiment Analysis

3 citations · 3 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2025

HausaNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 11: Hausa Text Emotion Detection

Sani Abdullahi Sani, Salim Abubakar, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan +2

This paper presents our approach to multi-label emotion detection in Hausa, a low-resource African language, for SemEval Track A. We fine-tuned AfriBERTa, a transformer-based model…

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

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.CL2024

Text Categorization Can Enhance Domain-Agnostic Stopword Extraction

Houcemeddine Turki, Naome A. Etori, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb +6

This paper investigates the role of text categorization in streamlining stopword extraction in natural language processing (NLP), specifically focusing on nine African languages al…

cs.CL2023

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera +49

African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingu…

cs.CL2023

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…