SemEval-2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages

1 code implementation • 27 Mar 2024 • Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Oumaima Hourrane, Manish Shrivastava, Thamar Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif M. Mohammad

We present the first shared task on Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR).

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity +1

SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 14 Languages

2 code implementations • 13 Feb 2024 • Nedjma Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Pavan Baswani, Meriem Beloucif, Chris Biemann, Sofia Bourhim, Christine de Kock, Genet Shanko Dekebo, Oumaima Hourrane, Gopichand Kanumolu, Lokesh Madasu, Samuel Rutunda, Manish Shrivastava, Thamar Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Hailegnaw Getaneh Tilaye, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Genta Winata, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif M. Mohammad

Exploring and quantifying semantic relatedness is central to representing language.

Semantic Similarity Semantic Textual Similarity +1

Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset

no code implementations • 23 Jan 2024 • Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Abubakar Auwal Khalid, Saminu Muhammad Aliyu, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Bala Mairiga Abduljalil, Bello Shehu Bello, Amina Imam Abubakar

Numerous successes have been achieved in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, initially using various precautionary measures like lockdowns, social distancing, and the use of face masks.

Leveraging Closed-Access Multilingual Embedding for Automatic Sentence Alignment in Low Resource Languages

no code implementations • 20 Nov 2023 • Idris Abdulmumin, Auwal Abubakar Khalid, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Babangida Sani, Bala Mairiga Abduljalil, Sani Ahmad Hassan

The importance of qualitative parallel data in machine translation has long been determined but it has always been very difficult to obtain such in sufficient quantity for the majority of world languages, mainly because of the associated cost and also the lack of accessibility to these languages.

Machine Translation Sentence +1

HaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language

no code implementations • 28 May 2023 • Shantipriya Parida, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Aneesh Bose, Guneet Singh Kohli, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Ketan Kotwal, Sayan Deb Sarkar, Ondřej Bojar, Habeebah Adamu Kakudi

This paper presents HaVQA, the first multimodal dataset for visual question-answering (VQA) tasks in the Hausa language.

Multimodal Machine Translation Question Answering +2

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

1 code implementation • 11 May 2023 • Odunayo Ogundepo, Tajuddeen R. Gwadabe, Clara E. Rivera, Jonathan H. Clark, Sebastian Ruder, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Abdou Aziz DIOP, Claytone Sikasote, Gilles Hacheme, Happy Buzaaba, Ignatius Ezeani, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Chris Emezue, Albert Njoroge Kahira, Shamsuddeen H. Muhammad, Akintunde Oladipo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Iyanuoluwa Shode, Akari Asai, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Clemencia Siro, Steven Arthur, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aremu Anuoluwapo, Oyinkansola Awosan, Chiamaka Chukwuneke, Bernard Opoku, Awokoya Ayodele, Verrah Otiende, Christine Mwase, Boyd Sinkala, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Daniel A. Ajisafe, Emeka Felix Onwuegbuzia, Habib Mbow, Emile Niyomutabazi, Eunice Mukonde, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Martin Namukombo, Mbonu Chinedu, Mofya Phiri, Neo Putini, Ndumiso Mngoma, Priscilla A. Amuok, Ruqayya Nasir Iro, Sonia Adhiambo34

African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users.

Question Answering Retrieval

HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-Information for Multi-Level Sexism Classification

no code implementations • 28 Apr 2023 • Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Aliyu Yusuf, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan

We present the findings of our participation in the SemEval-2023 Task 10: Explainable Detection of Online Sexism (EDOS) task, a shared task on offensive language (sexism) detection on English Gab and Reddit dataset.

Classification Sentiment Analysis +2

HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech against Fulani in Nigeria

1 code implementation • 28 Nov 2022 • Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Gregory Maksha Wajiga, Muhammad Murtala, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Ibrahim Said Ahmad

Social media platforms allow users to freely share their opinions about issues or anything they feel like.

NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

2 code implementations • LREC 2022 • Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sebastian Ruder, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Bello Shehu Bello, Monojit Choudhury, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Saheed Salahudeen Abdullahi, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Alipio Jeorge, Pavel Brazdil

We introduce the first large-scale human-annotated Twitter sentiment dataset for the four most widely spoken languages in Nigeria (Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian-Pidgin, and Yor\`ub\'a ) consisting of around 30, 000 annotated tweets per language (and 14, 000 for Nigerian-Pidgin), including a significant fraction of code-mixed tweets.

Sentiment Analysis