NaijaNER : Comprehensive Named Entity Recognition for 5 Nigerian Languages

no code implementations • 30 Mar 2021 • Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Ifeoma Okoh, Vitus Onuigwe, Mary Idera Salami, Opeyemi Osakuade, Sharon Ibejih, Usman Abdullahi Musa

In this work, we present our findings on Named Entity Recognition for 5 Nigerian Languages (Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin English, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa).

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

Semantic Enrichment of Nigerian Pidgin English for Contextual Sentiment Classification

no code implementations • 27 Mar 2020 • Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Olalekan Akinsande

The implication is that the current approach of using direct English sentiment analysis of social media text from Nigeria is sub-optimal, as it will not be able to capture the semantic variation and contextual evolution in the contemporary meaning of these words.

Classification General Classification +2

Improving Yorùbá Diacritic Restoration

1 code implementation • 23 Mar 2020 • Iroro Orife, David I. Adelani, Timi Fasubaa, Victor Williamson, Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi, Olamilekan Wahab, Kola Tubosun

Yor\`ub\'a is a widely spoken West African language with a writing system rich in orthographic and tonal diacritics.