publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

An up-to-date list is available on Google Scholar.

2025

  1. BRIGHTER: Bridging the Gap in Human‑Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
    S. H. Muhammad, N. Ousidhoum, I. Abdulmumin, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), 2025
    ACL 2025 Best Resource Paper Award
  2. SemEval‑2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text‑Based Emotion Detection
    S. H. Muhammad, N. Ousidhoum, I. Abdulmumin, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval‑2025), 2025
    Best Task Paper Award
  3. IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models
    D. I. Adelani, J. Ojo, I. A. Azime, and 24 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2025, Long Papers), 2025
    Outstanding Paper Award
  4. The State of Large Language Models for African Languages: Progress and Challenges
    K. Y. Hussen, W. T. Sewunetie, A. A. Ayele, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2025
    Best Paper Award at Deep Learning Indaba 2025
  5. AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
    S. H. Muhammad, I. Abdulmumin, A. A. Ayele, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2025, Long Papers), 2025
  6. HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing
    S. H. Muhammad, I. S. Ahmad, I. Abdulmumin, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2025
  7. Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low‑Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions
    S. H. Imam, B. Sani, D. K. Gete, and 7 more authors
    In Proceedings of the AfricaNLP 2025 Workshop at ACL 2025, 2025
  8. Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human‑Generated Text in Hausa
    B. Sani, A. Soy, S. H. Imam, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the AfricaNLP 2025 Workshop at ACL 2025, 2025
  9. INJONGO: A Multicultural Intent Detection and Slot‑filling Dataset for 16 African Languages
    H. Yu, J. O. Alabi, A. Bukula, and 15 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025, Long Papers), 2025
  10. POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi‑Event Online Polarization
    U. Naseem, J. Ren, S. Anwar, and 9 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2025
  11. AfroXLMR‑Social: Adapting Pre‑trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text
    T. D. Belay, I. A. Azime, I. S. Ahmad, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), 2025
  12. AfriDoc‑MT: Document‑level MT Corpus for African Languages
    J. O. Alabi, I. A. Azime, M. Zhang, and 9 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025), 2025

2024

  1. BLEnD: A Benchmark for LLMs on Everyday Knowledge in Diverse Cultures and Languages
    J. Myung, N. Lee, Y. Zhou, and 19 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024, Datasets and Benchmarks Track), 2024
    Best Non‑archival Paper Award at C3NLP Workshop
  2. SemEval Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
    N. Ousidhoum, S. H. Muhammad, and  others
    In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval‑2024), 2024
    Honourable Mention, Best Task Paper Award
  3. SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages
    N. Ousidhoum, S. H. Muhammad, and  others
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024
  4. Uhura: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Question Answering and Truthfulness in Low‑resource African Languages
    E. Bayes, I. A. Azime, J. O. Alabi, and 8 more authors
    In arXiv preprint, 2024
  5. AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under‑resourced African Languages
    J. Wang, D. I. Adelani, S. Agrawal, and 18 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL 2024, Long Papers), 2024
  6. Correcting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages
    I. Abdulmumin, S. Mkhwanazi, M. Mbooi, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2024), 2024
  7. HausaHate: An Expert Annotated Corpus for Hausa Hate Speech Detection
    F. A. Vargas, S. Guimarães, S. H. Muhammad, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024), 2024
  8. Findings of WMT2024 English‑to‑Low Resource Multimodal Translation Task
    S. Parida, O. Bojar, I. Abdulmumin, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2024), 2024

2023

  1. AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
    S. H. Muhammad, I. Abdulmumin, A. A. Ayele, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023, Main), 2023
    Best Non‑archival Paper Award at AfricaNLP 2023 Workshop
  2. HaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language
    S. Parida, I. Abdulmumin, S. H. Muhammad, and 4 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023
  3. AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Empowering COMET to Embrace Under‑resourced African Languages
    J. Wang, D. I. Adelani, S. Agrawal, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2023), 2023
  4. AfriWOZ: Corpus for Exploiting Cross‑Lingual Transfer for Dialogue Generation in Low‑Resource African Languages
    T. P. Adewumi, M. Adeyemi, A. Anuoluwapo, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), 2023
  5. Combining Symbolic and Deep Learning Approaches for Sentiment Analysis
    S. H. Muhammad, P. Brazdil, and A. M. Jorge
    In Compendium of Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence, 2023
  6. MasakhaPOS: Part‑of‑Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
    C. M. B. Dione, D. I. Adelani, P. Nabende, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), 2023
  7. AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
    S. H. Muhammad, I. Abdulmumin, I. S. Ahmad, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), 2023
  8. HausaNLP at SemEval‑2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side‑information for Multi‑level Sexism Classification
    S. M. Aliyu, I. Abdulmumin, S. H. Muhammad, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2023
  9. AfriQA: Cross‑lingual Open‑Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
    N. Ousidhoum, S. H. Muhammad, M. Abdalla, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), 2023
  10. The African Stopwords Project: Curating Stopwords for African Languages
    C. C. Emezue, H. H. Nigatu, C. Thinwa, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2023

2022

  1. MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa‑centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
    D. I. Adelani, G. Neubig, S. Ruder, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), 2022
    Service: IJCNLP–AACL 2023 Area Chair Award
  2. NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
    S. H. Muhammad, D. I. Adelani, S. Ruder, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022), 2022
  3. Separating Grains from the Chaff: Using Data Filtering to Improve Multilingual Translation for Low‑Resourced African Languages
    I. Abdulmumin, M. Beukman, J. O. Alabi, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2022
  4. MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa‑centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
    D. I. Adelani, G. Neubig, S. Ruder, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), 2022
  5. BibleTTS: A Large, High‑Fidelity, Multilingual, and Uniquely African Speech Corpus
    J. Meyer, D. I. Adelani, E. Casanova, and 3 more authors
    In arXiv preprint, 2022
  6. Symbolic Versus Deep Learning Techniques for Explainable Sentiment Analysis
    S. H. Muhammad, P. Brazdil, and A. M. Jorge
    In Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
  7. Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi‑Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation
    I. Abdulmumin, S. R. Dash, M. A. Dawud, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), 2022
  8. HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech Against Fulani in Nigeria
    S. M. Aliyu, G. M. Wajiga, M. T. Murtala, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2022

2021

  1. Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web‑Crawled Multilingual Datasets
    I. Caswell, J. Kreutzer, L. Wang, and 4 more authors
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021

2020

  1. Participatory Research for Low‑resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
    W. Nekoto, V. Marivate, T. Matsila, and 5 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020
    Wikimedia Research Award
  2. Participatory Research for Low‑resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
    W. O. Nekoto, V. Marivate, T. Matsila, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2020
  3. Incremental Approach for Automatic Generation of Domain‑Specific Sentiment Lexicon
    S. H. Muhammad, P. Brazdil, and A. M. Jorge
    In Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), 2020
  4. A Survey on Machine Learning Techniques in Movie Revenue Prediction
    I. S. Ahmad, A. Abu Bakar, M. R. Yaakub, and 1 more author
    SN Computer Science, 2020

2019

  1. An Overview of Sentiment Analysis Approaches
    S. H. Muhammad
    arXiv preprint, 2019

2017

  1. Massive Open Online Courses: Awareness, Adoption, Benefits and Challenges in Sub‑Saharan Africa
    S. H. Muhammad, A. Mustapha, and K. Haruna
    In Proceedings of OcRI, 2017
  2. A Framework for Implementation of E‑Classroom System
    K. Haruna, M. Baffa, S. H. Muhammad, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of OcRI, 2017

2016

  1. Massive Open Online Courses: A Success of Cloud Computing in Education
    A. Mustapha, S. H. Muhammad, and S. A. Salahudeen
    In Proceedings of OcRI, 2016