most citedMasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

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cs.CL2026

Author Representation Strategies for Zero-Shot Authorship Attribution: A Comparative Study of LLM-Based and Embedding-Based Approaches

Nudrat Habib, Tosin Adewumi, Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi +2

Authorship Attribution (AA) requires capturing fine-grained stylistic characteristics, making it particularly challenging in zero-shot (ZS) settings where no task-specific supervis…

cs.CV2026

Performance Gap Analysis between Latin and Arabic Scripts HTR

Sana Al-azzawi, Elisa Barney, Marcus Liwicki

Recent studies have shown that handwritten text recognition (HTR) systems perform worse on Arabic-script datasets than on Latin-script data. However, the reasons for this gap are s…

cs.CV2026

Cross-Lingual Learning within Arabic Script for Low-Resource HTR

Sana Al-azzawi, Elisa Barney, Marcus Liwicki

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) with limited labeled data remains a challenging problem, particularly for Arabic-script languages. Although modern sequence-based recognizers per…

cs.CV2026

Understanding Cross-Language Transfer Improvements in Low-Resource HTR: The Role of Sequence Modeling

Sana Al-azzawi, Chang Liu, Nudrat Habib +2

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script languages benefits from cross-language joint training under low-resource conditions, particularly when using CRNN-based models…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

A Human-in-the-Loop Label Error Detection Framework Applied to Arabic-Script HTR Datasets

Sana Al-azzawi, Elisa Barney, Marcus Liwicki

Despite recent advances, Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script languages still lags behind Latin-script HTR. Part of the problem is dataset quality. To help closing…

cs.CL2023

AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages

Jiayi Wang, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sweta Agrawal +55

Despite the recent progress on scaling multilingual machine translation (MT) to several under-resourced African languages, accurately measuring this progress remains challenging, s…

cs.CL2023

NLP-LTU at SemEval-2023 Task 10: The Impact of Data Augmentation and Semi-Supervised Learning Techniques on Text Classification Performance on an Imbalanced Dataset

Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi, György Kovács, Filip Nilsson +2

In this paper, we propose a methodology for task 10 of SemEval23, focusing on detecting and classifying online sexism in social media posts. The task is tackling a serious issue, a…

cs.CL2023

Masakhane-Afrisenti at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis using Afro-centric Language Models and Adapters for Low-resource African Languages

Israel Abebe Azime, Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja +8

AfriSenti-SemEval Shared Task 12 of SemEval-2023. The task aims to perform monolingual sentiment classification (sub-task A) for 12 African languages, multilingual sentiment classi…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime +62

African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets covering several NLP tasks. While there are individual language specific datasets that are…

cs.CL2023

Lon-ea at SemEval-2023 Task 11: A Comparison of Activation Functions for Soft and Hard Label Prediction

Peyman Hosseini, Mehran Hosseini, Sana Sabah Al-Azzawi +3

We study the influence of different activation functions in the output layer of deep neural network models for soft and hard label prediction in the learning with disagreement task…