In recent years, the natural language processing (NLP) community has given increased
attention to the disparity of efforts directed towards high-resource languages over low …

One of the widely used technological inventions is the Internet which gives rise to online
social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to proliferate. These platforms are …

Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well represented in the
existing natural language processing ecosystem. African languages lack essential digital …

Hausa is a major Chadic language, spoken by over 100 million people in Africa. However,
from a computational linguistic perspective, it is considered a low-resource language, with …

Creole languages such as Nigerian Pidgin English and Haitian Creole are under-resourced
and largely ignored in the NLP literature. Creoles typically result from the fusion of a foreign …

Nigerian Pidgin is an English-derived contact language and is traditionally an oral
language, spoken by approximately 100 million people. No orthographic standard has yet …

Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in an increasingly interconnected
world presents intimidating challenges, particularly in low-resource languages like Luganda …

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing
(NLP) focused on identifying entities like individuals, organizations, and locations within text …

Hausa, a major Chadic language spoken by over 100 million people in Africa, faces a
challenge in the digital age. While widely used, it is considered a low-resource language …

Parts-of-speech tagging is a linguistics task that assigns the best sequence of tags to a given
sequence of input words. The process falls under word sense disambiguation, which …