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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OkwuGbé: End-to-End Speech Recognition for Fon and Igbo Bonaventure F. P. Dossou Chris C. Emezue 51 14 0 13 Mar 2021
A Survey on Recent Approaches for Natural Language Processing in Low-Resource Scenarios Michael A. Hedderich Lukas Lange Heike Adel Jannik Strötgen Dietrich Klakow 289 299 0 23 Oct 2020
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Language-agnostic BERT Sentence Embedding Fangxiaoyu Feng Yinfei Yang Daniel Cer N. Arivazhagan Wei Wang 151 905 0 03 Jul 2020
XCOPA: A Multilingual Dataset for Causal Commonsense Reasoning Edoardo Ponti Goran Glavaš Olga Majewska Qianchu Liu Ivan Vulić Anna Korhonen LRM 61 320 0 01 May 2020
The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World Pratik M. Joshi Sebastin Santy A. Budhiraja Kalika Bali Monojit Choudhury LMTD 107 847 0 20 Apr 2020
Semi-supervised acoustic modelling for five-lingual code-switched ASR using automatically-segmented soap opera speech N. Wilkinson A. Biswas Emre Yilmaz Febe de Wet Ewald van der Westhuizen T. Niesler 44 11 0 08 Apr 2020
XTREME: A Massively Multilingual Multi-task Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-lingual Generalization Junjie Hu Sebastian Ruder Aditya Siddhant Graham Neubig Orhan Firat Melvin Johnson ELM 161 970 0 24 Mar 2020
TArC: Incrementally and Semi-Automatically Collecting a Tunisian Arabish Corpus Elisa Gugliotta Marco Dinarelli 15 7 0 20 Mar 2020
Distant Supervision and Noisy Label Learning for Low Resource Named Entity Recognition: A Study on Hausa and Yorùbá David Ifeoluwa Adelani Michael A. Hedderich D. Zhu Esther van den Berg Dietrich Klakow 43 12 0 18 Mar 2020
Investigating an approach for low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi Vukosi Marivate T. Sefara Vongani Chabalala Keamogetswe Makhaya T. Mokgonyane Rethabile Mokoena Abiodun Modupe 68 29 0 18 Feb 2020
Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus Rosana Ardila Megan Branson Kelly Davis Michael Henretty M. Kohler Josh Meyer Reuben Morais Lindsay Saunders Francis M. Tyers Gregor Weber VLM 87 1,592 0 13 Dec 2019
CCAligned: A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs Ahmed El-Kishky Vishrav Chaudhary Francisco Guzman Philipp Koehn 86 199 0 10 Nov 2019
Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale Alexis Conneau Kartikay Khandelwal Naman Goyal Vishrav Chaudhary Guillaume Wenzek Francisco Guzmán Edouard Grave Myle Ott Luke Zettlemoyer Veselin Stoyanov 195 6,538 0 05 Nov 2019
On the Importance of Subword Information for Morphological Tasks in Truly Low-Resource Languages Yi Zhu Benjamin Heinzerling Ivan Vulić Michael Strube Roi Reichart Anna Korhonen 39 20 0 26 Sep 2019
WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from Wikipedia Holger Schwenk Vishrav Chaudhary Shuo Sun Hongyu Gong Francisco Guzmán CVBM 93 404 0 10 Jul 2019
Choosing Transfer Languages for Cross-Lingual Learning Yu-Hsiang Lin Chian-Yu Chen Jean Lee Zirui Li Yuyan Zhang ... Zhisong Zhang Xuezhe Ma Antonios Anastasopoulos Patrick Littell Graham Neubig 79 233 0 29 May 2019