Table of Contents

• Natural Language Understanding for African LanguagesPierrette Mahoro Mastel, Ester Namara, Aime Munezero, Richard Kagame, Zihan Wang 0006, Allan Anzagira, Akshat Gupta, Jema David Ndibwile. [doi]
• Prediction of the ability and motivation to adopt Reproductive Health Behavioural change using anonymized customer center audio dataOlubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi. [doi]
• Adapting to the Low-Resource Double-Bind: Investigating Low-Compute Methods on Low-Resource African LanguagesColin Leong, Herumb Shandilya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Joel Mathew, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Oreen Yousuf, Zainab Akinjobi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Shamsudeen Muhammad, Steven Kolawole, Younwoo Choi, Tosin P. Adewumi. [doi]
• MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for TshivendaRendani Mbuvha, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Tendani Mutavhatsindi, Tshimangadzo Rakhuhu, Aluwani Mauda, Tshifhiwa Joshua Maumela, Andisani Masindi, Seani Rananga, Vukosi Marivate, Tshilidzi Marwala. [doi]
• Kinyarwanda TTS: Using a multi-speaker dataset to build a Kinyarwanda TTS modelSamuel Rutunda, Kleber Kabanda, Adriana Stan. [doi]
• Fine-Tuning Multilingual Pretrained African Language ModelsRozina Lucy Myoya, Fiskani Banda, Vukosi Marivate, Abiodun Modupe. [doi]
• AROT-COV23: A Dataset of 500K Original Arabic Tweets on COVID-19Cheng Xu, Nan Yan. [doi]
• Speech Recognition Datasets for Low-resource Congolese LanguagesUssen Kimanuka, Ciira Wa Maina, Osman Büyük. [doi]
• Evaluating the Robustness of Machine Reading Comprehension Models to Low Resource Entity RenamingClemencia Siro, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi. [doi]
• AfroDigits: A Community-Driven Spoken Digit Dataset for African LanguagesChris Chinenye Emezue, Sanchit Gandhi, Lewis Tunstall, Abubakar Abid, Joshua Meyer, Quentin Lhoest, Pete Allen, Patrick von Platen, Douwe Kiela, Yacine Jernite, Julien Chaumond, Merve Noyan, Omar Sanseviero. [doi]
• ε kú : Integrating YorùBá Cultural greetings into Machine TranslationIdris Akinade, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Clement Odoje, Dietrich Klakow. [doi]
• The first large scale collection of diverse Hausa language datasetsIsa Inuwa-Dutse. [doi]
• Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Kinyarwanda, Swahili, and Luganda: Advancing ASR in Select East African LanguagesMoayad Elamin, Yonas Chanie, Paul Ewuzie, Samuel Rutunda. [doi]
• Lexicon and Rule-based Word Lemmatization Approach for Somali LanguageShafie Abdi Mohamed, Muhidin A. Mohamed. [doi]
• MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languagesDavid Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Christine Mwase, Odunayo Ogundepo, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Akintunde Oladipo, Doreen Nixdorf, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Sana Sabah Al-azzawi, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Brian Odhiambo, Abraham Toluwase Owodunni. [doi]
• Breaking the Low-Resource Barrier for Dagbani ASR: From Data Collection to ModelingPaul Azunre, Naafi Dasana Ibrahim. [doi]
• Igboner 2.0: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via ProjectionChiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Paul Rayson, Ignatius Ezeani, Mo El-Haj, Doris Chinedu Asogwa, Chidimma Lilian Okpalla, Chinedu Emmanuel Mbonu. [doi]
• Tigrinya Dialect IdentificationAsfaw Gedamu Haileslasie, Asmelash Teka Hadgu, Solomon Teferra Abate. [doi]
• Yoruba and Unicode: An Overview of a ProblemKolawole Olatubosun. [doi]
• VoxMg: An Automatic Speech Recognition Dataset for MalagasyFalia Ramanantsoa. [doi]
• HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Leveraging African Low Resource TweetData for Sentiment AnalysisSaheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Ahmad Mustapha Wali, Amina Abubakar Imam, Aliyu Rabiu Shuaibu, Aliyu Yusuf, Nur Bala Rabiu, Musa Bello, Shamsuddeen Umaru Adamu, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Murja Sani Gadanya, Sanah Abdullahi Muaz, Mahmoud Said Ahmad, Abdulkadir Abdullahi, Abdulmalik Yusuf Jamoh. [doi]
• Error Analysis of Tigrinya - English Machine Translation SystemsNuredin Ali Abdelkadir, Negasi Haile Abadi, Asmelash Teka Hadgu. [doi]
• AfriSign: Machine Translation for African Sign LanguagesShester Gueuwou, Kate Takyi, Mathias Müller 0002, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Richard Adade, Rose-mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening. [doi]
• Koya: A Recommender System for Large Language Model SelectionAbraham Toluwase Owodunni, Chris Chinenye Emezue. [doi]
• AfriNames: Most ASR models "butcher" African NamesTobi Olatunji, Tejumade Afonja, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Amina Mardiyyah Rufai, Sahib Singh. [doi]
• African Substrates Rather Than European Lexifiers to Augment African-diaspora Creole TranslationNathaniel Romney Robinson, Matthew Dean Stutzman, Stephen D. Richardson, David R. Mortensen. [doi]
• Multilingual Model and Data Resources for Text-To-Speech in Ugandan LanguagesIsaac Owomugisha, Benjamin Akera, Ernest Mwebaze, John A. Quinn. [doi]
• How good are Commercial Large Language Models on African Languages?Jessica Ojo, Kelechi Ogueji. [doi]
• Online Threats Detection in Hausa LanguageAbubakar Yakubu Zandam, Fatima Adam Muhammad, Isa Inuwa-Dutse. [doi]
• Improving African Language Identification with Multi-task LearningIfe Adebara, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed. [doi]