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# Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026: all accepted papers

30 papers · the most cited first · [← Workshop on African Natural Language Processing 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/africanlp/2026/)

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*
26. **[Sudanese-Flores: Extending FLORES+ to Sudanese Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samil-2026-sudanese-flores-extending-flores-sudanese/)**Hadia Mohmmedosman Ahmed Samil, David Ifeoluwa Adelani*our summary*
27. **[Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Low-Resource Swahili Sentiment Analysis: Multi-LLM Judging with Human Validation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.12/)**Samuel Gyamfi, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Yankı Öztürk et al.
28. **[Using Subword-Embeddings for Bilingual Lexicon Induction in Bantu Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.29/)**Adrian Breiding, Alan Akbik
29. **[Where Are We at with Automatic Speech Recognition for the Bambara Language? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.26/)**Seydou Diallo, Yacouba Diarra, Mamadou K. Keita et al.
30. **[ÒWE-Voice: An Evaluation of Monolingual and Multilingual ASR Model Using Yoruba Proverb Speech Dataset ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.8/)**Daud Abolade
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