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# Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC 2026 — papers

The works of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC published in 2026 that our library holds (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)): 6 works, listed below with the most cited first; each has a page with our summary, its key points and its references.

[**13** works that year](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/2026/#works) · [**0** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/2026/#works)

## All works of the year (13)

The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Morpho-Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Ògè Folk Narratives with a Focus on Nominal Structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.1/)**Priscilla Adenuga
2. **[Benchmarking Text Embedding Models for South African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/villiers-2026-benchmarking-text-embedding-models-south/)**Ockert de Villiers, Roald Eiselen*our summary*
3. **[Comparing Source Language Selection Strategies for Multi-Source Cross-Lingual Transfer to African Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.4/)**Tewodros Kederalah Idris, Roald Eiselen, Prasenjit Mitra
4. **[Extension of Linguistic Resources for South African Languages: Part-of-Speech Annotated Domain-Specific Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.2/)**Tanja Gaustad, Roald Eiselen, Cindy Arlene McKellar
5. **[From Script to Semantics: Prompting Strategies for African NLI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiwari-2026-script-semantics-prompting-strategies-african/)**Anuj Tiwari, Terry Oko-odion, Hannah Nwokocha*our summary*
6. **[Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in Afrikaans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lotz-2026-getting-close-cloze-investigating-language/)**Susan Lotz, Rik van Noord, Gertjan van Noord*our summary*
7. **[HaYo: Repurposing DiaSafety Dataset for Dialogue Safety Evaluation in Hausa and Yoruba ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.9/)**Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Bolade Deborah Ashaolu, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan et al.
8. **[Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jotie-2026-improving-amharic-information-retrieval-translative/)**Abel Alemu Jotie, Prasenjit Mitra*our summary*
9. **[Less can be More: Towards a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Wav2Vec2 XLSR for Low-Resource Cape Verdean Creole ASR ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.7/)**Mateus Neves Andrade, Mouhamadou Lamine Ba, Idy Diop et al.
10. **[Mining Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language Data: Comparing Elicitation Strategies for Hausa and Fongbe ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.3/)**Pericles Adjovi, Prasenjit Mitra, Roald Eiselen
11. **[Open but Unvetted: The Ethics of African Language Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.13/)**Ernst A.P. van Gassen
12. **[Reclaiming African Voices: Surveying Indigenous Writing Systems for Inclusive NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/traore-2026-reclaiming-african-voices-surveying-indigenous/)**Mamady Traore, Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadat*our summary*
13. **[The Hundzula Retreat-Based Infrastructure Model for African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sibeko-2026-hundzula-retreat-based-infrastructure-model/)**Johannes Sibeko, Seani Rananga, Neo N. Putini et al.*our summary*

## Works with our summary in our library (6)

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

1. **[Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jotie-2026-improving-amharic-information-retrieval-translative/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Abel Alemu Jotie, Prasenjit Mitra*2026*
2. **[Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in Afrikaans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lotz-2026-getting-close-cloze-investigating-language/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Susan Lotz, Rik van Noord, Gertjan van Noord*2026*
3. **[The Hundzula Retreat-Based Infrastructure Model for African Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sibeko-2026-hundzula-retreat-based-infrastructure-model/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Johannes Sibeko, Seani Rananga, Neo N. Putini, et al.*2026*
4. **[From Script to Semantics: Prompting Strategies for African NLI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiwari-2026-script-semantics-prompting-strategies-african/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Anuj Tiwari, Terry Oko-odion, Hannah Nwokocha*2026*
5. **[Reclaiming African Voices: Surveying Indigenous Writing Systems for Inclusive NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/traore-2026-reclaiming-african-voices-surveying-indigenous/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Mamady Traore, Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadat*2026*
6. **[Benchmarking Text Embedding Models for South African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/villiers-2026-benchmarking-text-embedding-models-south/) [Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rail/)**Ockert de Villiers, Roald Eiselen*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [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/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (6)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Anuj Tiwari**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anuj-tiwari/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fatiha Sadat**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatiha-sadat/) · [🧑‍🔬**Gertjan van Noord**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gertjan-van-noord/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hannah Sopuruchi Nwokocha**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannah-sopuruchi-nwokocha/) · [🧑‍🔬**Prasenjit Mitra**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasenjit-mitra/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rik van Noord**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rik-van-noord/) · [🧑‍🔬**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.

[🎓**Université du Québec à Montréal** Montreal · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-du-quebec-a-montreal/) · [🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) · [🎓**Stellenbosch University** Stellenbosch · South Africa 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stellenbosch-university/) · [🎓**North-West University** Potchefstroom · South Africa 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-west-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University Africa** Kigali · Rwanda 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university-africa/) · [🎓**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/) · [🎓**University of Pretoria** Pretoria · South Africa 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pretoria/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of KwaZulu-Natal** Durban · South Africa 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-kwazulu-natal/)

works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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