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News and updates.
| Jun 02, 2026 | Returning to AIMS South Africa as Visiting Professor to teach NLP & LLMs for the upcoming Nov–Dec 2026 cohort. |
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| May 30, 2026 | New preprint: Temporal Simultaneity Predicts Annotation Quality in Sentiment Corpora. |
| May 28, 2026 | New preprint: AfriScience-MT: Towards Decolonizing Science in Africa through Text Translation. |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Several papers at AfricaNLP 2026 (Rabat), where I also serve as a workshop co-organiser. |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Co-organising two SemEval-2026 shared tasks: multilingual online polarization detection and dimensional aspect-based sentiment & stance. |
| Dec 08, 2025 | As Visiting Professor, taught NLP & LLMs at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa (Nov–Dec 2025). |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Awarded Principal Investigator on AfriGemma: Advancing African Language NLP for Research, Healthcare, and Societal Benefit. |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Our SemEval-2025 Task 11 on text-based emotion detection was awarded Best Task. |
| Jul 30, 2025 | BRIGHTER won Best Resource Paper at ACL 2025! |
| Jul 28, 2025 | BRIGHTER appeared at ACL 2025, and our SemEval-2025 Task 11 on text-based emotion detection ran across 30+ languages. |
| Apr 30, 2025 | Presented AfriHate, a multilingual hate & abusive-language collection for African languages, at NAACL 2025. |
| Jun 20, 2024 | SemEval-2024 Task 1 (Semantic Textual Relatedness) earned a Best Task Paper Honorable Mention. |
| Dec 12, 2023 | AfriHate was listed in the IRCAI Global Top 100 Outstanding AI Projects Advancing the SDGs (UNESCO). |
| Nov 03, 2023 | MasakhaNEWS won the Area Chair Award (Resources & Evaluation) at IJCNLP-AACL 2023. |
| May 15, 2023 | AfriSenti received the Best Non-archival Paper award at AfricaNLP 2023. |