Awards & Recognitions

Over the years, my research and community contributions have received recognition at top-tier venues and workshops in Natural Language Processing (NLP) . Below is a selection of my awards and distinctions.

2025

• ACL 2025 – Best Resource Paper Award
  BRIGHTER: Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages.
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• SemEval 2025 – Best Task Paper Award
  Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection.
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• NAACL 2025 – Outstanding Paper Award
  IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of LLMs.
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• Deep Learning Indaba 2025 – Best Paper Award
  The State of Large Language Models for African Languages.
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2024

• NeurIPS 2024 (C3NLP Workshop) – Best Non-archival Paper Award
  BLEnD: Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages.
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• SemEval 2024 – Honourable Mention (Best Task Paper)
  Semantic Textual Relatedness Task.
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2023

• AfricaNLP 2023 (Kigali) – Best Non-archival Paper Award
  AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages.
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• IJCNLP–AACL 2023 – Area Chair Award
  MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages.
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2020

• EMNLP 2020 (Findings) – Wikimedia Research Award
  Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation.
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