3 papers
cs.CL2026
AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages
Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang +16
Assessing the veracity of a claim made online is a complex and important task with real-world implications. When these claims are directed at communities with limited access to inf…
cs.CL2025
INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages
Hao Yu, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Andiswa Bukula +19
Slot-filling and intent detection are well-established tasks in Conversational AI. However, current large-scale benchmarks for these tasks often exclude evaluations of low-resource…
cs.CL2025
IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime +24
Despite the widespread adoption of Large language models (LLMs), their remarkable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. Additionally, many low-resource lang…