no code implementations • 24 Jan 2024 • Houcemeddine Turki, Naome A. Etori, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Ayodele Awokoya, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Doreen Nixdorf
This paper investigates the role of text categorization in streamlining stopword extraction in natural language processing (NLP), specifically focusing on nine African languages alongside French.
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.
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.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2023 • Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ahmad Mustapha Wali, Amina Abubakar Imam, Aliyu Rabiu Shuaibu, Aliyu Yusuf, Nur Bala Rabiu, Musa Bello, Shamsuddeen Umaru Adamu, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Murja Sani Gadanya, Sanah Abdullahi Muaz, Mahmoud Said Ahmad, Abdulkadir Abdullahi, Abdulmalik Yusuf Jamoh
We present the findings of SemEval-2023 Task 12, a shared task on sentiment analysis for low-resource African languages using Twitter dataset.