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Week 3127 Jul – 2 Aug 202615 papers
English–Igbo language contact increasingly shapes contemporary personal naming practices in Igboland, where English functions as both a second and an official language. This study examines the phonological and morphological structures of English-influenced Igb…
Machine translation for low-resource and structurally divergent languages remains a significant challenge, particularly when mapping highly tonal languages to contact languages with fluid orthographies. This study presents the development of a translation syst…
This article presents AryWiki-Instruct, a high-fidelity instruction tuning dataset for Moroccan Arabic (Darija), comprising 46,590 Question and Answer (QA) pairs. The dataset was derived from a snapshot of the Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia (arywiki) and generated …
Emotion recognition plays an important role in enhancing social communications and is a key component of improving human-machine interactions. With the rise of deep learning, emotion recognition systems are becoming more effective and accurate. However, progre…
Detecting hate speech in low-resource and unseen languages remains challenging due to limited labeled data and linguistic diversity. This paper presents a comparative study of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer for hate speech detection using two multilingual tr…
Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people across a region experiencing a substantial increase in stroke burden. Yet, no comprehensively validated aphasia assessment battery exists that provides dialect-stratified norms across major Arabic-speaking commu…
Nuer, a West Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan and Ethiopia, is typologically unusual in that it exhibits intraparadigmatic alternations across a three-way division of vowel length categories: short /V/, long /VV/, and overlong /VVV/. Nuer has a series of…
Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is an economically important vegetable crop in Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa, yet it remains underrepresented in agricultural artificial intelligence research, and its leaf diseases are difficult to distinguish by eye. Thi…
The linguistic notion of state has traditionally been restricted to the construct (annexation) state of Afroasiatic languages and treated as a language-specific morphosyntactic phenomenon. This article argues instead that the state is a systemic, context-depen…
The use of social media in East Africa has grown rapidly, and with it, the spread of hate speech has become a serious concern. This problem is even more complex in online spaces where people often switch between English and Swahili within the same sentence or …
The research came up with a bilingual natural language processing (NLP) model of a patient-focused healthcare system that is geared towards improving healthcare communication in low-resource settings, based on both the English and Yoruba languages. The system …
Recent progress in artificial intelligence has pushed machine translation to high levels of accuracy for widely resourced languages. Yet for many indigenous and endangered languages, comparable tools remain absent, largely because digitized linguistic data are…
Artificial Intelligence is shaking up the way we grow food. Large farms already use AI-powered tools, such as deep learning, remote sensors, and IoT networks, to improve yield prediction, early disease detection, and more judicious resource use . Large-scale o…
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