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Salomey Osei

6 accepted papers

2025

AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages

NAACL 2025long

Hate speech and abusive language are global phenomena that need socio-cultural background knowledge to be understood, identified, and moderated. However, in many regions of the Global South, there have been several documented occurrences of (1) absence of moderation and (2) censorship due to the rel…

2025

INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages

ACL 2025long

Slot-filling and intent detection are well-established tasks in Conversational AI. However, current large-scale benchmarks for these tasks often exclude evaluations of low-resource languages and rely on translations from English benchmarks, thereby predominantly reflecting Western-centric concepts.…

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2025

IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models

NAACL 2025long

Despite the widespread adoption of Large language models (LLMs), their remarkable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. Additionally, many low-resource languages (e.g. African languages) are often evaluated only on basic text classification tasks due to the lack of appropriat…

2024

AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages

NAACL 2024long

Despite the recent progress on scaling multilingual machine translation (MT) to several under-resourced African languages, accurately measuring this progress remains challenging, since evaluation is often performed on n-gram matching metrics such as BLEU, which typically show a weaker correlation wi…

2023

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

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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2023

Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

EMNLP 2023long findings

African languages have far less in-language content available digitally, making it challenging for question answering systems to satisfy the information needs of users. Cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering (XOR QA) systems -- those that retrieve answer content from other languages while s…

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