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# Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025: all accepted papers

28 papers · the most cited first · [← Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2025/)

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
26. **[Y-NQ: English-Yorùbá Evaluation dataset for Open-Book Reading Comprehension with Open-Ended Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.34/)**Marta R. Costa-jussà, Joy Chen, Ife Adebara et al.
27. **[Yankari: Monolingual Yoruba Dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.1/)**Maro Akpobi
28. **[YodiV3: NLP for Togolese Languages with Eyaa-Tom Dataset and the Lom Metric ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.20/)**Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Kodjo François Xegbe, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman et al.
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