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| Aug 25, 2025 | Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 |
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| Aug 22, 2025 | Our paper, “The State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges”, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at Deep Learning Indaba (DLI)2025. DLI is the largest machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) gathering in Africa. The paper reveals that African languages remain significantly underrepresented in current language models. Out of over 2,000 languages, only about 42 have any support in existing LLMs, primarily those with large speaker populations or official status. Major challenges include severe data scarcity, morphological complexity, a lack of standardized orthographies, and limited computational resources. |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Our paper “BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages” has been awarded the Best Resource Award at ACL 2025. See the project page for more details. |
| Jul 30, 2025 | Our SemEval task “SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection” has been awarded the Best SemEval2025 Task Award at ACL 2025. |
| Jun 15, 2025 | I will be giving a keynote speech at Empowering India Through Inclusive Generative AI workshop on 5th July 2025. |
| Jun 14, 2025 | I will be giving a keynote speech at Workshop on Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) on October 10, 2025 at Palais des Congrès, Montreal, Canada |
| Jun 07, 2025 | I will be giving a keynote speech at the York St John University on 19th June 2025. |
| Jun 04, 2025 | I will be teaching Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Camerron from Febuary 23 to March 14, 2025. |
| Jun 02, 2025 | I will be teaching Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the AI for Science Master’s program at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in South Africa from November 24 to December 12, 2025. |
| May 05, 2025 | Two papers accepted at ACL2025 |
| May 05, 2025 | Four Papers Accepted at AfricaNLP 2025 |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Our paper IrokoBench received the Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (April 30–May 7, 2025). |
| Mar 22, 2025 | I will be attending NACCL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (April 30–May 7, 2025) to present the AfriHate paper. |
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| Feb 01, 2025 | Two papers accepted at NAACL2025 |
| Jun 01, 2024 | Co-Organizing SemEval-2025 Shared Task on Emotion Detection |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Joining Imperial College London as a Google DeepMind Academic Fellow |