Publications

2025

ASR-AfLRL

Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions

Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete, and 6 more authors

2025

@misc{imam2025automaticspeechrecognitionafrican,
  title = {Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions},
  author = {Imam, Sukairaj Hafiz and Sani, Babangida and Gete, Dawit Ketema and Ahamed, Bedru Yimam and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Abdulmumin, Idris and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Bello, Muhammad Yahuza and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2505.11690},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11690},
}

POLAR: BM3OP

POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization

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

2025

Bib PDF

@misc{naseem2025polarbenchmarkmultilingualmulticultural,
  title = {POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization},
  author = {Naseem, Usman and Ren, Juan and Anwar, Saba and Kohail, Sarah and Veliz, Rudy Alexandro Garrido and Geislinger, Robert and Jabr, Aisha and Abdulmumin, Idris and Qureshi, Laiba and Borkar, Aarushi Ajay and Mukhtar, Maryam Ibrahim and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Ali, Adem and Semmann, Martin and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Yimam, Seid Muhie},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2505.20624},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20624},
}

ECN-EP-15AfL

Exploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages

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

2025

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@misc{ahmad2025exploringculturalnuancesemotion,
  title = {Exploring Cultural Nuances in Emotion Perception Across 15 African Languages},
  author = {Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Dudy, Shiran and Belay, Tadesse Destaw and Abdulmumin, Idris and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Church, Kenneth},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2503.19642},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19642},
}

2024

ACVS-NC: IMATD

Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset

Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Lukman Jibril Aliyu, Abubakar Auwal Khalid, and 6 more authors

2024

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@misc{ahmad2024analyzingcovid19vaccinationsentiments,
  title = {Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset},
  author = {Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Aliyu, Lukman Jibril and Khalid, Abubakar Auwal and Aliyu, Saminu Muhammad and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Abdulmumin, Idris and Abduljalil, Bala Mairiga and Bello, Bello Shehu and Abubakar, Amina Imam},
  year = {2024},
  eprint = {2401.13133},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13133},
}

CFED-4AfL

Correcting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages

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

2024

Bib PDF

@misc{abdulmumin2024correctingfloresevaluationdataset,
  title = {Correcting FLORES Evaluation Dataset for Four African Languages},
  author = {Abdulmumin, Idris and Mkhwanazi, Sthembiso and Mbooi, Mahlatse S. and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Putini, Neo and Mathebula, Miehleketo and Shingange, Matimba and Gwadabe, Tajuddeen and Marivate, Vukosi},
  year = {2024},
  eprint = {2409.00626},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00626},
}

2023

HausaNLP-SemEval23: TL-SDS-MSC

HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification

Saminu Aliyu, Saheed Abdullahi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, and 4 more authors

2023

Bib

@unpublished{hausanlp-semeval-2023,
  author = {Aliyu, Saminu and Abdullahi, Saheed and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa'id and Abdulmumin, Idris and Yusuf, Aliyu and Lawan, Falalu},
  title = {HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification},
  year = {2023},
}

HaVQA: DVQA-MRLH

HaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language

Shantipriya Parida, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, and 7 more authors

2023

Bib

@unpublished{havqa-2023,
  author = {Parida, Shantipriya and Abdulmumin, Idris and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Bose, Aneesh and Kohli, Guneet Singh and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Kotwal, Ketan and Sarkar, Sayan Deb and Bojar, Ondřej and Kakudi, Habeebah},
  title = {HaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language},
  year = {2023},
}

AfriSenti: TSABAfL

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, and 8 more authors

2023

DOI Bib

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2302.08956,
  author = {Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Abdulmumin, Idris and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Ousidhoum, Nedjma and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa'id and Beloucif, Meriem and Mohammad, Saif and Ruder, Sebastian and others},
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2302.08956},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  title = {AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08956},
  year = {2023},
}

SemEval23-Task12: SAfAfL

SemEval 2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)

Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, and 7 more authors

In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), Jul 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{muhammad-etal-2023-semeval,
  address = {Toronto, Canada},
  author = {Muhammad, Shamsuddeen and Abdulmumin, Idris and Yimam, Seid Muhie and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa'id and Ousidhoum, Nedjma and Ayele, Abinew Ali and Mohammad, Saif M. and Beloucif, Meriem and Ruder, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)},
  month = jul,
  title = {SemEval 2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06845},
  year = {2023},
}

2022

HERDPhobia: HSD-FHNiN

HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech Detection against Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria

Saminu Aliyu, Gregory Wajiga, Muhammad Murtala, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Widening Natural Language Processing, Dec 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{aliyu-2022-herdphobia,
  address = {Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates},
  author = {Aliyu, Saminu and Wajiga, Gregory and Murtala, Muhammad and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen and Abdulmumin, Idris and Ahmad, Ibrahim},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Widening Natural Language Processing},
  month = dec,
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  title = {HERDPhobia: A Dataset for Hate Speech Detection against Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.winlp-1.0},
  year = {2022},
}

NaijaSenti: NTSC-MSA

NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sebastian Ruder, and 5 more authors

Dec 2022

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@misc{muhammad2022naijasenti,
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  author = {Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and Ruder, Sebastian and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Abdulmumin, Idris and Bello, Bello Shehu and Choudhury, Monojit and others},
  eprint = {2201.08277},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL},
  title = {NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis},
  year = {2022},
}

2021

EFA-SAEHT

An Enhanced Feature Acquisition for Sentiment Analysis of English and Hausa Tweets

Amina Imam Abubakar, Abubakar Roko, Aminu Muhammad Bui, and 1 more author

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Dec 2021

DOI Bib

@article{Abubakar2021,
  author = {Abubakar, Amina Imam and Roko, Abubakar and Bui, Aminu Muhammad and Saidu, Ibrahim},
  doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120913},
  journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  number = {9},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  title = {An Enhanced Feature Acquisition for Sentiment Analysis of English and Hausa Tweets},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120913},
  volume = {12},
  year = {2021},
}

2019

Hausa WordNet: ELR

Hausa WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Resource

Amina Imam Abubakar, Abubakar Roko, A. B. Muhammad, and 1 more author

In , Dec 2019

Bib

@inproceedings{Abubakar2019HausaWA,
  title = {Hausa WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Resource},
  author = {Abubakar, Amina Imam and Roko, Abubakar and Muhammad, A. B. and Saidu, Ibrahim},
  year = {2019},
}