publications

2025

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

   Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, and 8 more authors

   2025

   Bib PDF Code Website

   @article{muhammad2025brighter,
     title = {{BRIGHTER}: {BRIdging} the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages},
     author = {Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Ousidhoum, Nedjma and Abdulmumin, Idris and Wahle, Jan Philip and Ruas, Terry and Beloucif, Meriem and de Kock, Christine and Surange, Nirmal and Teodorescu, Daniela and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and others},
     journal = {ACL},
     year = {2025},
     featured = {true},
     conference = {EMNLP},
     abbrev = {EMNLP},
     type = {EMNLP}
   }

2. SemEval-2025 task 11: Bridging the gap in text-based emotion detection

   Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, and 8 more authors

   2025
3. AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages

   Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, and 24 more authors

   In , 2025

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   AfriHate introduces a multilingual dataset for hate speech and abusive language detection across African languages. It provides annotated corpora for diverse languages to address hate speech challenges in low-resource settings.

4. HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing

   Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, and 8 more authors

   In , 2025
5. INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot-filling Dataset for 16 African Languages

   Hao Yu, Jesujoba O Alabi, Andiswa Bukula, and 8 more authors

   ACL 2025, 2025
6. The State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges

   Kedir Yassin Hussen, Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, Abinew Ali Ayele, and 3 more authors

   In , 2025
7. POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization

   Usman Naseem, Juan Ren, Saba Anwar, and 14 more authors

   In , 2025
8. Exploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages

   Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Shiran Dudy, Tadesse Destaw Belay, and 4 more authors

   ArXiv, 2025
9. AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text

   Tadesse Destaw Belay, Israel Abebe Azime, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, and 4 more authors

   ArXiv, 2025
10. Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language

    Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahamed, Tadesse Destaw Belay, and 11 more authors

    ArXiv, 2025
11. Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa

    Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, and 5 more authors

    ArXiv, 2025

2024

1. Uhura: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Question Answering and Truthfulness in Low-Resource African Languages

   Edward Bayes, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, and 11 more authors

   ArXiv, 2024
2. Correcting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages

   Idris Abdulmumin, Sthembiso Mkhwanazi, Mahlatse S Mbooi, and 7 more authors

   In Conference on Machine Translation, 2024
3. Mitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach

   Garry Kuwanto, Eno-Abasi Urua, Priscilla Amuok, and 21 more authors

   ArXiv, 2024
4. BLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages

   Junho Myung, Nayeon Lee, Yi Zhou, and 19 more authors

   ArXiv, 2024