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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.
Aug 03, 2025
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