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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JWSign: A Highly Multilingual Corpus of Bible Translations for more Diversity in Sign Language Processing Shester Gueuwou Sophie Siake Colin Leong Mathias Müller SLR 82 13 0 16 Nov 2023
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Sentiment Analysis Across Multiple African Languages: A Current Benchmark Saurav K. Aryal H. Prioleau Surakshya Aryal 63 5 0 21 Oct 2023
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AfriSpeech-200: Pan-African Accented Speech Dataset for Clinical and General Domain ASR Tobi Olatunji Tejumade Afonja Aditya Yadavalli Chris C. Emezue Sahib Singh ... Joanne I. Osuchukwu Salomey Osei A. Tonja Naome A. Etori Clinton Mbataku 59 19 0 30 Sep 2023
GlotScript: A Resource and Tool for Low Resource Writing System Identification Amir Hossein Kargaran François Yvon Hinrich Schütze 25 11 0 23 Sep 2023
SIB-200: A Simple, Inclusive, and Big Evaluation Dataset for Topic Classification in 200+ Languages and Dialects David Ifeoluwa Adelani Hannah Liu Xiaoyu Shen Nikita Vassilyev Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Yanke Mao Haonan Gao Annie En-Shiun Lee ELM 73 76 0 14 Sep 2023
MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset Sneha Kudugunta Isaac Caswell Biao Zhang Xavier Garcia Christopher A. Choquette-Choo ... Derrick Xin Aditya Kusupati Romi Stella Ankur Bapna Orhan Firat 91 133 0 09 Sep 2023
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NaijaRC: A Multi-choice Reading Comprehension Dataset for Nigerian Languages Anuoluwapo Aremu Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Daud Abolade Nkechinyere F. Aguobi Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad David Ifeoluwa Adelani 72 4 0 18 Aug 2023
ÌròyìnSpeech: A multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus Tolulope Ogunremi Kólá Túbosún Aremu Anuoluwapo Iroro Orife David Ifeoluwa Adelani 76 7 0 29 Jul 2023
Zambezi Voice: A Multilingual Speech Corpus for Zambian Languages Claytone Sikasote Kalinda Siaminwe Stanly Mwape Bangiwe Zulu Mofya Phiri Martin Phiri David Zulu Mayumbo Nyirenda Antonios Anastasopoulos 49 8 0 07 Jun 2023
Evaluating Emotion Arcs Across Languages: Bridging the Global Divide in Sentiment Analysis Daniela Teodorescu Saif M. Mohammad 42 11 0 03 Jun 2023
AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African Names Tobi Olatunji Tejumade Afonja Bonaventure F. P. Dossou A. Tonja Chris C. Emezue Amina Mardiyyah Rufai Sahib Singh 45 6 0 01 Jun 2023
BIG-C: a Multimodal Multi-Purpose Dataset for Bemba Claytone Sikasote Eunice Mukonde Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam Antonios Anastasopoulos 45 8 0 26 May 2023
Free Lunch: Robust Cross-Lingual Transfer via Model Checkpoint Averaging Fabian David Schmidt Ivan Vulić Goran Glavaš 55 9 0 26 May 2023
BUFFET: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Few-shot Cross-lingual Transfer Akari Asai Sneha Kudugunta Xinyan Velocity Yu Terra Blevins Hila Gonen Machel Reid Yulia Tsvetkov Sebastian Ruder Hannaneh Hajishirzi 88 61 0 24 May 2023
mmT5: Modular Multilingual Pre-Training Solves Source Language Hallucinations Jonas Pfeiffer Francesco Piccinno Massimo Nicosia Xinyi Wang Machel Reid Sebastian Ruder VLM LRM 63 29 0 23 May 2023
An Open Dataset and Model for Language Identification Laurie Burchell Alexandra Birch Nikolay Bogoychev Kenneth Heafield 36 34 0 23 May 2023
XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages Sebastian Ruder J. Clark Alexander Gutkin Mihir Kale Min Ma ... Dan Garrette R. Ingle Melvin Johnson Dmitry Panteleev Partha P. Talukdar ELM 66 40 0 19 May 2023
MD3: The Multi-Dialect Dataset of Dialogues Jacob Eisenstein Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Clara E. Rivera Dorottya Demszky D. Sharma 50 10 0 19 May 2023
mLongT5: A Multilingual and Efficient Text-To-Text Transformer for Longer Sequences David C. Uthus Santiago Ontañón Joshua Ainslie Mandy Guo VLM 32 11 0 18 May 2023
MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda R. Mbuvha David Ifeoluwa Adelani Tendani Mutavhatsindi Tshimangadzo Rakhuhu A. Mauda Tshifhiwa Joshua Maumela Andisani Masindi Seani Rananga Vukosi Marivate T. Marwala 106 1 0 08 Apr 2023
Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities A. Tonja Tadesse Destaw Belay Israel Abebe Azime Abinew Ali Ayele Moges Ahmed Mehamed Olga Kolesnikova Seid Muhie Yimam 32 9 0 25 Mar 2023
MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI Kabir Ahuja Harshita Diddee Rishav Hada Millicent Ochieng Krithika Ramesh ... T. Ganu Sameer Segal Maxamed Axmed Kalika Bali Sunayana Sitaram LM&MA LRM ELM 76 283 0 22 Mar 2023
Optical Character Recognition and Transcription of Berber Signs from Images in a Low-Resource Language Amazigh Levi Corallo A. Varde 24 2 0 21 Mar 2023
Improving Accented Speech Recognition with Multi-Domain Training Lucas Maison Yannick Esteve 57 9 0 14 Mar 2023
SERENGETI: Massively Multilingual Language Models for Africa Ife Adebara AbdelRahim Elmadany Muhammad Abdul-Mageed Alcides Alcoba Inciarte 42 33 0 21 Dec 2022
TaTa: A Multilingual Table-to-Text Dataset for African Languages Sebastian Gehrmann Sebastian Ruder Vitaly Nikolaev Jan A. Botha Michael Chavinda Ankur P. Parikh Clara E. Rivera LMTD 71 11 0 31 Oct 2022
COMET-QE and Active Learning for Low-Resource Machine Translation E. Chimoto Bruce A. Bassett 46 10 0 27 Oct 2022
Bloom Library: Multimodal Datasets in 300+ Languages for a Variety of Downstream Tasks Colin Leong Joshua Nemecek Jacob Mansdorfer Anna Filighera A. Owodunni Daniel Whitenack VLM AI4CE 121 27 0 26 Oct 2022
AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages Ife Adebara AbdelRahim Elmadany Muhammad Abdul-Mageed Alcides Alcoba Inciarte 56 32 0 21 Oct 2022
BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus Josh Meyer David Ifeoluwa Adelani Edresson Casanova A. Oktem Daniel Whitenack Julian Weber ... Victor Akinode Bernard Opoku S. Olanrewaju Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad 34 23 0 07 Jul 2022
Task-Adaptive Pre-Training for Boosting Learning With Noisy Labels: A Study on Text Classification for African Languages D. Zhu Michael A. Hedderich Fangzhou Zhai David Ifeoluwa Adelani Dietrich Klakow NoLa 44 1 0 03 Jun 2022
FLEURS: Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech Alexis Conneau Min Ma Simran Khanuja Yu Zhang Vera Axelrod Siddharth Dalmia Jason Riesa Clara E. Rivera Ankur Bapna VLM 124 314 0 25 May 2022
Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation Idris Abdulmumin S. Dash Musa Abdullahi Dawud Shantipriya Parida Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad Ibrahim Said Ahmad Subhadarshi Panda Ondrej Bojar B. Galadanci Bello Shehu Bello 31 18 0 02 May 2022
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad David Ifeoluwa Adelani Sebastian Ruder Ibrahim Said Ahmad Idris Abdulmumin ... Chris C. Emezue Saheed Abdul Anuoluwapo Aremu Alipio Jeorge P. Brazdil 64 100 0 20 Jan 2022
Lesan -- Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages Asmelash Teka Hadgu Abel Aregawi Adam Beaudoin 27 10 0 15 Dec 2021
Learning Nigerian accent embeddings from speech: preliminary results based on SautiDB-Naija corpus Tejumade Afonja Oladimeji Mudele Iroro Orife Kenechi Dukor Lawrence Francis Duru Goodness Oluwafemi Azeez Ademola Malomo Clinton Mbataku 34 4 0 12 Dec 2021
XLS-R: Self-supervised Cross-lingual Speech Representation Learning at Scale Arun Babu Changhan Wang Andros Tjandra Kushal Lakhotia Qiantong Xu ... Yatharth Saraf J. Pino Alexei Baevski Alexis Conneau Michael Auli SSL 86 699 0 17 Nov 2021
DziriBERT: a Pre-trained Language Model for the Algerian Dialect Amine Abdaoui Mohamed Berrimi Mourad Oussalah A. Moussaoui 47 45 0 25 Sep 2021
AfroMT: Pretraining Strategies and Reproducible Benchmarks for Translation of 8 African Languages Machel Reid Junjie Hu Graham Neubig Y. Matsuo 112 33 0 10 Sep 2021
Survey of Low-Resource Machine Translation Barry Haddow Rachel Bawden Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone Jindvrich Helcl Alexandra Birch AIMat 63 160 0 01 Sep 2021
Facebook AI WMT21 News Translation Task Submission C. Tran Shruti Bhosale James Cross Philipp Koehn Sergey Edunov Angela Fan VLM 167 82 0 06 Aug 2021
Manually Annotated Spelling Error Corpus for Amharic A. Gezmu Tirufat Tesifaye Lema B. Seyoum A. Nürnberger 26 5 0 25 Jun 2021