Felermino D. M. A. Ali — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Meriem Beloucif +42

ACL 2025long

People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition–an umbrella term for several NLP tasks–impacts various applications within NLP and beyond, most work in this area has focused on high-resource languages. This has led to significant disparities…

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2025

Leveraging Loanword Constraints for Improving Machine Translation in a Low-Resource Multilingual Context

Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Rui Sousa-Silva

EMNLP 2025

This research investigates how to improve machine translation systems for low-resource languages by integrating loanword constraints as external linguistic knowledge. Focusing on the Portuguese-Emakhuwa language pair, which exhibits significant lexical borrowing, we address the challenge of effectiv

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2025

SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages?

Senyu Li, Jiayi Wang, Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Colin Cherry, Daniel Deutsch, Eleftheria Briakou +4

EMNLP 2025

Evaluating machine translation (MT) quality for under-resourced African languages remains a significant challenge, as existing metrics often suffer from limited language coverage and poor performance in low-resource settings. While recent efforts, such as AfriCOMET, have addressed some of the issues

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2024

Building Resources for Emakhuwa: Machine Translation and News Classification Benchmarks

Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Rui Sousa-Silva

EMNLP 2024main

This paper introduces a comprehensive collection of NLP resources for Emakhuwa, Mozambique’s most widely spoken language. The resources include the first manually translated news bitext corpus between Portuguese and Emakhuwa, news topic classification datasets, and monolingual data. We detail the pr…

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2023

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Nedjma OUSIDHOUM, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam +21

EMNLP 2023long main

Africa is home to over 2,000 languages from over six language families and has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. This includes 75 languages with at least one million speakers each. Yet, there is little NLP research conducted on African languages. Crucial in enabling such researc…

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