Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026
LREC 2026 Workshop
A Morpho-Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Ògè Folk Narratives with a Focus on Nominal Structure
Priscilla Adenuga
Extension of Linguistic Resources for South African Languages: Part-of-Speech Annotated Domain-Specific Data
Tanja Gaustad, Roald Eiselen, Cindy Arlene McKellar
Mining Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language Data: Comparing Elicitation Strategies for Hausa and Fongbe
Pericles Adjovi, Prasenjit Mitra, Roald Eiselen
Comparing Source Language Selection Strategies for Multi-Source Cross-Lingual Transfer to African Languages
Tewodros Kederalah Idris, Roald Eiselen, Prasenjit Mitra
Benchmarking Text Embedding Models for South African Languages
Ockert de Villiers, Roald Eiselen
Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented Generation
Abel Alemu Jotie, Prasenjit Mitra
Less can be More: Towards a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Wav2Vec2 XLSR for Low-Resource Cape Verdean Creole ASR
Mateus Neves Andrade, Mouhamadou Lamine Ba, Idy Diop, Arlindo Oliveira da Veiga
From Script to Semantics: Prompting Strategies for African NLI
Anuj Tiwari, Terry Oko-odion, Hannah Nwokocha
HaYo: Repurposing DiaSafety Dataset for Dialogue Safety Evaluation in Hausa and Yoruba
Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Bolade Deborah Ashaolu, Falalu Ibrahim Lawan, Daud Olamide Abolade, Amina Imam Abubakar, Oluwatosin Ayomide Akinrinde, Murja Sani Gadanya, Omodolapo Dorcas Ashaolu, Abubakar Khalid Auwal, Adewumi Awujoola, Shamsuddeen Umaru Adamu, Israel Olawole Ashaolu, Mihael Arcan, Paul Buitelaar
Reclaiming African Voices: Surveying Indigenous Writing Systems for Inclusive NLP
Mamady Traore, Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadat
Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in Afrikaans
Susan Lotz, Rik van Noord, Gertjan van Noord
The Hundzula Retreat-Based Infrastructure Model for African Natural Language Processing
Johannes Sibeko, Seani Rananga, Neo N. Putini, Dan Masethe
Open but Unvetted: The Ethics of African Language Data
Ernst A.P. van Gassen
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