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# Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025 — accepted papers

Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, held in Vienna, Austria, July 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 28 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Vienna, [Austria](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/austria/) · 🗓 July 2025

[**28** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2025/#works) · [**32** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2025/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Multilingual NLP for African Healthcare: Bias, Translation, and Explainability Challenges ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.32/)**Ugochi Okafor*7 citations*
2. **[Beyond Metrics: Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Culturally Nuanced, Low-Resource Real-World Scenarios ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.33/)**Millicent Ochieng, Varun Gumma, Sunayana Sitaram et al.*5 citations*
3. **[Fine-tuning Whisper Tiny for Swahili ASR: Challenges and Recommendations for Low-Resource Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.11/)**Avinash Kumar Sharma, Manas Pandya, Arpit Shukla*5 citations*
4. **[Enhancing AI-Driven Farming Advisory in Kenya with Efficient RAG Agents via Quantized Fine-Tuned Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.5/)**Theophilus Lincoln Owiti, Andrew Kiprop Kipkebut*3 citations*
5. **[Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.13/)**Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete et al.*2 citations*
6. **[Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnumay-2025-command-r7b-arabic-small-enterprise/)**Yazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas et al.*2 citations · our summary*
7. **[Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.12/)**Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam et al.*2 citations*
8. **[HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.27/)**Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin et al.*1 citation*
9. **[MOZ-Smishing: A Benchmark Dataset for Detecting Mobile Money Frauds ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.23/)**Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Saide M. Saide, Rui Sousa-Silva et al.*1 citation*
10. **[Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.31/)**Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer*1 citation*

## All accepted papers (28)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Multilingual NLP for African Healthcare: Bias, Translation, and Explainability Challenges ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.32/)**Ugochi Okafor*7 citations*
2. **[Beyond Metrics: Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Culturally Nuanced, Low-Resource Real-World Scenarios ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.33/)**Millicent Ochieng, Varun Gumma, Sunayana Sitaram et al.*5 citations*
3. **[Fine-tuning Whisper Tiny for Swahili ASR: Challenges and Recommendations for Low-Resource Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.11/)**Avinash Kumar Sharma, Manas Pandya, Arpit Shukla*5 citations*
4. **[Enhancing AI-Driven Farming Advisory in Kenya with Efficient RAG Agents via Quantized Fine-Tuned Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.5/)**Theophilus Lincoln Owiti, Andrew Kiprop Kipkebut*3 citations*
5. **[Automatic Speech Recognition for African Low-Resource Languages: Challenges and Future Directions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.13/)**Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Babangida Sani, Dawit Ketema Gete et al.*2 citations*
6. **[Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnumay-2025-command-r7b-arabic-small-enterprise/)**Yazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas et al.*2 citations · our summary*
7. **[Who Wrote This? Identifying Machine vs Human-Generated Text in Hausa ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.12/)**Babangida Sani, Aakansha Soy, Sukairaj Hafiz Imam et al.*2 citations*
8. **[HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.27/)**Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin et al.*1 citation*
9. **[MOZ-Smishing: A Benchmark Dataset for Detecting Mobile Money Frauds ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.23/)**Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Saide M. Saide, Rui Sousa-Silva et al.*1 citation*
10. **[Neural Morphological Tagging for Nguni Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.31/)**Cael Marquard, Simbarashe Mawere, Francois Meyer*1 citation*
11. **[Retrieval-Augmented Generation Meets Local Languages for Improved Drug Information Access and Comprehension. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.15/)**Ahmad Ibrahim Ismail, Bashirudeen Opeyemi Ibrahim, Olubayo Adekanmbi et al.*1 citation*
12. **[Supervised Machine Learning based Amharic Text Complexity Classification Using Automatic Annotator Tool](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigusie-2025-supervised-machine-learning-based-amharic/)**Gebregziabihier Nigusie*1 citation · our summary*
13. **[Beyond Generalization :Evaluating Multilingual LLMs for Yorùbá Animal Health Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.28/)**Godwin Adegbehingbe, Anthony Soronnadi, Ife Adebara et al.
14. **[Building a Functional Machine Translation Corpus for Kpelle ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.8/)**Kweku Andoh Yamoah, Jackson Weako, Emmanuel Dorley
15. **[Challenges and Limitations in Gathering Resources for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Medumba ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.18/)**Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, Mbuh Christabel, Njeunga Yopa
16. **[Challenging Multimodal LLMs with African Standardized Exams: A Document VQA Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.22/)**Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, Emmanuel Bolarinwa et al.
17. **[Designing and Contextualising Probes for African Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.7/)**Wisdom Aduah, Francois Meyer
18. **[Evaluating Robustness of LLMs to Typographical Noise in Yorùbá QA ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.29/)**Paul Okewunmi, Favour James, Oluwadunsin Fajemila
19. **[Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigatu-2025-exploring-transliteration-based-zero-shot/)**Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmaki*our summary*
20. **[In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.26/)**Pratik Rakesh Singh, Kritarth Prasad, Mohammadi Zaki et al.
21. **[On the Tolerance of Repetition Before Performance Degradation in Kiswahili Automatic Speech Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.3/)**Kathleen Siminyu, Kathy Reid, Rebecca Ryakitimbo et al.
22. **[Pretraining Strategies using Monolingual and Parallel Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.6/)**Idriss Nguepi Nguefack, Mara Finkelstein, Toadoum Sari Sakayo
23. **[SabiYarn: Advancing Low Resource Languages with Multitask NLP Pretraining ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.14/)**Jeffrey Otoibhi, Oduguwa Damilola, Okpare David
24. **[Story Generation with Large Language Models for African Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.16/)**Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Jan Buys
25. **[Swahili News Classification: Performance, Challenges, and Explainability Across ML, DL, and Transformers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.30/)**Manas Pandya, Avinash Kumar Sharma, Arpit Shukla

[See all 28 papers in Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2025/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (4)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Command R7B Arabic: a small, enterprise-focused, multilingual, and culturally aware Arabic LLM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnumay-2025-command-r7b-arabic-small-enterprise/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Yazeed Alnumay, Alexandre Barbet, Anna Bialas, et al.*2025 · 18 citations*
2. **[The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual Tokenization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lundin-2025-token-tax-systematic-bias-multilingual/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Jessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim, et al.*2025 · 12 citations*
3. **[Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigatu-2025-exploring-transliteration-based-zero-shot/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Hanan Aldarmaki*2025 · 1 citation*
4. **[Supervised Machine Learning based Amharic Text Complexity Classification Using Automatic Annotator Tool](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nigusie-2025-supervised-machine-learning-based-amharic/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Gebregziabihier Nigusie*2025 · 1 citation*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Jennifer Tracey**1 work here · 18 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennifer-tracey/) · [🧑‍🔬**Justin Lee**1 work here · 18 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-lee/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yazeed Alnumay**1 work here · 18 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yazeed-alnumay/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Ifeoluwa Adelani**1 work here · 12 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jessica Lundin**1 work here · 12 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jessica-lundin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hanan Aldarmaki**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanan-aldarmaki/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hellina Hailu Nigatu**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hellina-hailu-nigatu/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🔬**Canadian Institute for Advanced Research** Toronto · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/) · [🤝**Gates Foundation** Seattle · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/gates-foundation/) · [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/)

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