Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Ahead

27 May 2025

Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi

Michael A. Hedderich

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Dietrich Klakow

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Voices Unheard: NLP Resources and Models for Yorùbá Regional Dialects Orevaoghene Ahia Anuoluwapo Aremu Diana Abagyan Hila Gonen David Ifeoluwa Adelani Daud Abolade Noah A. Smith Yulia Tsvetkov 104 8 0 27 Jun 2024
Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin Muhammed Saeed Peter Bourgonje Vera Demberg 36 2 0 26 Jun 2024
The FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at Scale Guilherme Penedo Hynek Kydlícek Loubna Ben Allal Anton Lozhkov Margaret Mitchell Colin Raffel Leandro von Werra Thomas Wolf 97 241 0 25 Jun 2024
From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP Marius Mosbach Vagrant Gautam Tomás Vergara-Browne Dietrich Klakow Mor Geva AI4CE 65 10 0 18 Jun 2024
1000 African Voices: Advancing inclusive multi-speaker multi-accent speech synthesis Sewade Ogun A. Owodunni Tobi Olatunji Eniola Alese Babatunde Oladimeji Tejumade Afonja Kayode Olaleye Naome A. Etori Tosin Adewumi 60 6 0 17 Jun 2024
MINERS: Multilingual Language Models as Semantic Retrievers Genta Indra Winata Ruochen Zhang David Ifeoluwa Adelani RALM 96 6 0 11 Jun 2024
mHuBERT-147: A Compact Multilingual HuBERT Model Marcely Zanon Boito Vivek Iyer Nikolaos Lagos Laurent Besacier Ioan Calapodescu VLM 104 18 0 10 Jun 2024
LINGOLY: A Benchmark of Olympiad-Level Linguistic Reasoning Puzzles in Low-Resource and Extinct Languages Andrew M. Bean Simi Hellsten Harry Mayne Jabez Magomere Ethan A. Chi Ryan A. Chi Scott A. Hale Hannah Rose Kirk ELM LRM 55 11 0 10 Jun 2024
CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark David Romero Chenyang Lyu Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo Teresa Lynn Injy Hamed ... Oana Ignat Joan Nwatu Rada Mihalcea Thamar Solorio Alham Fikri Aji 74 38 0 10 Jun 2024
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EkoHate: Abusive Language and Hate Speech Detection for Code-switched Political Discussions on Nigerian Twitter Comfort Eseohen Ilevbare Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi David Ifeoluwa Adelani Firdous Damilola Bakare O. B. Abiola O. Adeyemo 49 8 0 28 Apr 2024
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ANGOFA: Leveraging OFA Embedding Initialization and Synthetic Data for Angolan Language Model Osvaldo Luamba Quinjica David Ifeoluwa Adelani 55 1 0 03 Apr 2024
Africa-Centric Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Multilingual Speech Representation in a Sub-Saharan Context Antoine Caubrière Elodie Gauthier 45 3 0 02 Apr 2024
Kallaama: A Transcribed Speech Dataset about Agriculture in the Three Most Widely Spoken Languages in Senegal Elodie Gauthier A. Ndiaye Abdoulaye Guissé 21 3 0 02 Apr 2024
AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness Miaoran Zhang Mingyang Wang Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Dietrich Klakow VLM 66 6 0 01 Apr 2024
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The Hidden Space of Transformer Language Adapters Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Marius Mosbach Matan Eyal Dietrich Klakow Mor Geva 70 10 1 20 Feb 2024
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Aya Model: An Instruction Finetuned Open-Access Multilingual Language Model Ahmet Üstün Viraat Aryabumi Zheng-Xin Yong Wei-Yin Ko Daniel D'souza ... Shayne Longpre Niklas Muennighoff Marzieh Fadaee Julia Kreutzer Sara Hooker ALM ELM SyDa LRM 63 221 0 12 Feb 2024
Do Moral Judgment and Reasoning Capability of LLMs Change with Language? A Study using the Multilingual Defining Issues Test Aditi Khandelwal Utkarsh Agarwal Kumar Tanmay Monojit Choudhury ELM LRM 48 7 0 03 Feb 2024
Deep Learning Based Amharic Chatbot for FAQs in Universities Goitom Ybrah Hailu Shishay Welay 18 4 0 26 Jan 2024
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