3 papers
cs.CL2026
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva +16
Africa is home to over one-third of the world's languages, yet remains underrepresented in AI research. We introduce Afri-MCQA, the first Multilingual Cultural Question-Answering b…
cs.CL2025
Detection of Somali-written Fake News and Toxic Messages on the Social Media Using Transformer-based Language Models
Muhidin A. Mohamed, Shuab D. Ahmed, Yahye A. Isse +3
The fact that everyone with a social media account can create and share content, and the increasing public reliance on social media platforms as a news and information source bring…
cs.CL2024
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…