publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

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

2026

  1. FAccT
    Going PLACES: Participatory Localized Red Teaming for Text-to-Image Safety in the Global South
    C. Rastogi, M. Bhutani, M. Kahng, and 13 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026), 2026
    arXiv
  2. TACL
    Beyond Majority Voting: Agreement-Based Clustering to Model Annotator Perspectives in Subjective NLP Tasks
    T. D. Belay, I. S. Ahmad, I. Abdulmumin, and 6 more authors
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2026
    arXiv
  3. ACL
    DimABSA: Building Multilingual and Multidomain Datasets for Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
    S. H. Muhammad, and  others
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), 2026
    arXiv
  4. ACL
    CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
    S. H. Muhammad, and  others
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), 2026
    arXiv
  5. arXiv
    AfriSUD: A Dependency Treebank Collection for Evaluating Models on African Languages
    S. H. Muhammad, and  others
    arXiv preprint, 2026
  6. arXiv
    AfriScience-MT: Towards Decolonizing Science in Africa through Text Translation
    I. Abdulmumin, T. Gwadabe, S. H. Muhammad, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint, 2026
    arXiv

2025

  1. ACL
    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
    arXiv HTML
  2. SemEval
    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
    arXiv HTML
  3. NAACL
    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
    arXiv HTML
  4. arXiv
    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
    arXiv
  5. NAACL
    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
    arXiv HTML
  6. arXiv
    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
    arXiv
  7. AfricaNLP
    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
    arXiv HTML
  8. AfricaNLP
    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
    arXiv HTML
  9. ACL
    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
    arXiv HTML
  10. arXiv
    POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi‑Event Online Polarization
    U. Naseem, J. Ren, S. Anwar, and 9 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2025
    arXiv
  11. EMNLP
    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 Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025
    arXiv HTML
  12. EMNLP
    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
    arXiv HTML

2024

  1. NeurIPS
    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
    arXiv HTML
  2. SemEval
    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
    arXiv HTML
  3. Findings
    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
    arXiv HTML
  4. arXiv
    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
    arXiv
  5. NAACL
    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
    arXiv HTML
  6. WMT
    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
    arXiv HTML
  7. WOAH
    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
    HTML
  8. WMT
    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
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2023

  1. EMNLP
    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
    arXiv HTML
  2. Findings
    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
    arXiv HTML
  3. NAACL
    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. EMNLP
    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 arXiv preprint, 2023
    arXiv
  5. Chapter
    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
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  6. ACL
    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
    arXiv HTML
  7. EMNLP
    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. arXiv
    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
    arXiv
  9. EMNLP
    AfriQA: Cross‑lingual Open‑Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
    N. Ousidhoum, S. H. Muhammad, M. Abdalla, and 3 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023
    arXiv HTML
  10. arXiv
    The African Stopwords Project: Curating Stopwords for African Languages
    C. C. Emezue, H. H. Nigatu, C. Thinwa, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint, 2023
    arXiv

2022

  1. EMNLP
    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
    arXiv HTML
  2. LREC
    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
    arXiv HTML
  3. WMT
    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
    In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2022), 2022
    arXiv HTML
  4. EMNLP
    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. Interspeech
    BibleTTS: A Large, High‑Fidelity, Multilingual, and Uniquely African Speech Corpus
    J. Meyer, D. I. Adelani, E. Casanova, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 2022
    arXiv HTML
  6. EPIA
    Symbolic Versus Deep Learning Techniques for Explainable Sentiment Analysis
    S. H. Muhammad, P. Brazdil, and A. M. Jorge
    In Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2023), 2022
    HTML
  7. LREC
    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
    arXiv HTML
  8. arXiv
    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
    arXiv
  9. TACL
    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, 2022
    arXiv HTML

2020

  1. Findings
    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
    HTML
  2. arXiv
    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
    arXiv
  3. ECIR
    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
    HTML
  4. SN CS
    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
    HTML

2019

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

2017

  1. OcRI
    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
    HTML
  2. OcRI
    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. OcRI
    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
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