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# Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on African Natural Language Processing, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 30 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, [Morocco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/morocco/) · 🗓 March 2026

[**30** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2026/#works) · [**7** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2026/#works)

## All accepted papers (30)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moslem-2026-afrinllb-efficient-translation-models-african/)**Yasmin Moslem, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Amanuel Gizachew Abebe*2 citations · our summary*
2. **[The Token Tax: Systematic Bias in Multilingual Tokenization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lundin-2025-token-tax-systematic-bias-multilingual/)**Jessica M. Lundin, Ada Zhang, Nihal Karim et al.*2 citations · our summary*
3. **[Advancing African NLP: UDMorph and flexiPipe ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.13/)**Maarten Janssen
4. **[AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oduwole-2026-africaption-establishing-new-paradigm-image/)**Mardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo et al.*our summary*
5. **[Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ngoufo-2026-building-conversational-ai-assistant-african/)**Grace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoa*our summary*
6. **[Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.1/)**Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.
7. **[Developing an English–Efik Corpus and Machine Translation System for Digitization Inclusion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.6/)**Offiong Bassey Edet, Mbuotidem Awak, Emmanuel Ubene Oyo-Ita et al.
8. **[EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/odeajo-2026-edunaija-ai-tutor-multi-agent/)**Israel Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmy*our summary*
9. **[Enhancing Automatic Speech Recognition Models for Maternal and Reproductive Health: Fine-Tuning and Real-World Evaluation in Wolof ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.27/)**Ertony Basilwango, Yann Le Beux, Oche David Ankeli et al.
10. **[Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oirghi-2026-evaluating-native-speaker-preferences-machine/)**Hiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuat*our summary*
11. **[Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moshood-2026-evaluating-yoruba-text-speech-systems/)**Kausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde et al.*our summary*
12. **[Eyaa-Tom 26, Yodi-Mantissa and Lom Bench: A Community Benchmark for TTS in Local Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.28/)**Bakoubolo Essowe Justin, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Messan Agbobli et al.
13. **[Full Fine-Tuning vs. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Low-Resource African ASR: A Controlled Study with Whisper-Small ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.19/)**Sukairaj Hafiz Imam, Muhammad Yahuza Bello, Hadiza Ali Umar et al.
14. **[InstructLR: A Scalable Approach to Create Instruction Dataset for Under-Resourced Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.3/)**Mamadou K. Keita, Sebastien Diarra, Christopher Homan et al.
15. **[Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.18/)**Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly et al.
16. **[Language Choice in Nigerian Social Media Hate Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/udeze-2026-language-choice-nigerian-social-media/)**Nneoma C Udeze, Rob Voigt*our summary*
17. **[Leveraging CoHere Multilingual Embeddings and Inverted Softmax Retrieval for Automatic Parallel Sentence Alignment in Low-Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.4/)**Abubakar Auwal Khalid, Salisu Musa Borodo, Amina Abubakar Imam
18. **[Linguistically Informed Evaluation of Multilingual ASR for African Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.14/)**Fei-Yueh Chen, Lateef Adeleke, C. M. Downey
19. **[M-MiniGPT4: Multilingual VLLM Alignment via Translated Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.2/)**Seung Hun Eddie Han, Youssef Mohamed, Mohamed Elhoseiny
20. **[Morphologically-informed Somali Lemmatization Corpus built with a Web-based Crowdsourcing Platform ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.17/)**Abdifatah Ahmed Gedi, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Yusuf A. Yusuf et al.
21. **[Power Asymmetries, Bias, and AI, a Reflection of Society on Low-Resourced Languages - African Languages as Case Study ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.24/)**Simbiat Ajao
22. **[Real-Time Spoken Instruction Following and Translation in Ugandan Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.20/)**Benjamin Akera, Tim Wenjie Hu, Patrick Walukagga et al.
23. **[Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.7/)**Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani et al.
24. **[SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nsumba-2026-salt-31-machine-translation-benchmark/)**Solomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma et al.*our summary*
25. **[Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiwari-2026-sample-size-scaling-african-languages/)**Anuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion et al.*our summary*

[See all 30 papers in Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2026/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (10)

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

1. **[AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moslem-2026-afrinllb-efficient-translation-models-african/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Yasmin Moslem, Aman Kassahun Wassie, Amanuel Gizachew Abebe*2026 · 2 citations*
2. **[AfriCaption: Establishing a New Paradigm for Image Captioning in African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oduwole-2026-africaption-establishing-new-paradigm-image/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Mardiyyah Oduwole, Prince Mireku, Fatimo Adebanjo, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*
3. **[SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nsumba-2026-salt-31-machine-translation-benchmark/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Solomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samil-2026-sudanese-flores-extending-flores-sudanese/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Hadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelani*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[Language Choice in Nigerian Social Media Hate Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/udeze-2026-language-choice-nigerian-social-media/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Nneoma C Udeze, Rob Voigt*2026 · 1 citation*
6. **[Evaluating Yoruba Text-to-Speech Systems for Accessible Computer-Based Testing in Visually Impaired Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moshood-2026-evaluating-yoruba-text-speech-systems/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Kausar Yetunde Moshood, Victor Tolulope Olufemi, Oreoluwa Boluwatife Babatunde, et al.*2026*
7. **[Building a Conversational AI Assistant for African Travel Services with LLMs and RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ngoufo-2026-building-conversational-ai-assistant-african/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Grace Kevine Ngoufo, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Kevin Jeff Fogang Fokoa*2026*
8. **[EduNaija AI Tutor: A Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Nigerian Curriculum Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/odeajo-2026-edunaija-ai-tutor-multi-agent/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Israel Olanrewaju Odeajo, Edifon Emmanuel Jimmy*2026*
9. **[Evaluating Native-Speaker Preferences on Machine Translation and Post-Edits for Five African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oirghi-2026-evaluating-native-speaker-preferences-machine/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Hiba El Oirghi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Marine Carpuat*2026*
10. **[Sample-Size Scaling of the African Languages NLI Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiwari-2026-sample-size-scaling-african-languages/) [Workshop on African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/)**Anuj Tiwari, Oluwapelumi Ogunremu, Terry Oko-odion, et al.*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Evaluation & benchmarks (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Machine translation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Dialogue systems (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Medicine (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Aman Kassahun Wassie**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aman-kassahun-wassie/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jekaterina Novikova**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jekaterina-novikova/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yasmin Moslem**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasmin-moslem/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Ifeoluwa Adelani**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rob Voigt**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rob-voigt/) · [🧑‍🔬**Anuj Tiwari**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anuj-tiwari/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hannah Sopuruchi Nwokocha**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannah-sopuruchi-nwokocha/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marine Carpuat**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marine-carpuat/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tajuddeen Gwadabe**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tajuddeen-gwadabe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Terry Oko-odion**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terry-oko-odion/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Oregon State University** Corvallis · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/oregon-state-university/) · [🎓**Trinity College Dublin** Dublin · Ireland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/trinity-college-dublin/) · [🔬**African Institute for Mathematical Sciences** Limbe · Cameroon 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/african-institute-for-mathematical-sciences-cm/) · [🎓**Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology** Greater Noida · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/noida-institute-of-engineering-and-technology/) · [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**Makerere University** Kampala · Uganda 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/makerere-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Davis** Davis · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-davis/)

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