Publications

HaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language
Leveraging Closed-Access Multilingual Embedding for Automatic Sentence Alignment in Low Resource Languages
Leveraging Symbolic and Deep Learning Techniques for Explainable Sentiment Analysis
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
Domain-Specific Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis using Contextual Shifter Patterns
HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech Detection against Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria
Separating Grains from the Chaff: Using Data Filtering to Improve Multilingual Translation for Low-Resourced African Languages
A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in NLP, but most work focuses on languages with large amounts of …