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Advancing NLP for
African Languages

We are researchers, linguists, engineers and language enthusiasts building open language technology for Hausa and the broader African language ecosystem. Published at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and beyond.

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36+
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ACL · EMNLP · NAACL
10+
Languages
African coverage
6
Datasets
On HuggingFace
3
Top Venues
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Everything HausaNLP does, organised by topic.

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Research
Our research themes — sentiment, hate speech, MT, NER, multimodal & more.
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Publications
All 36+ peer-reviewed papers published at top venues since 2020.
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Projects & Datasets
Open-access datasets on HuggingFace and GitHub repositories.
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Meet the co-founders, researchers and contributors behind HausaNLP.
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About
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HausaNLP Catalogue
A curated hub of all Hausa NLP datasets, tools and papers. ↗
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Latest Highlight

🏆 ACL 2025 · Long Paper
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad et al. · Proceedings of ACL 2025
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28
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ACL EMNLP NAACL COLING SemEval WMT AfricaNLP LREC