Papers by Abigail Oppong

2 papers
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Hate speech and abusive language are global phenomena that need sociocultural background knowledge to be understood, identified, and moderated.
Approach: They propose to use a multilingual dataset to collect hate speech and abusive language in 15 African languages to help improve model performance.
Outcome: The proposed datasets are based on tweets annotated by native speakers familiar with the regional culture and show that they perform well in low-resource settings.
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Afri-MCQA is the first multilingual cultural question-answering benchmark containing 7.5k Q A pairs across 15 African languages from 12 countries.
Approach: They introduce Afri-MCQA, the first multilingual cultural question-answering benchmark containing 7.5k Q A pairs across 15 African languages from 12 countries.
Outcome: The proposed model shows poor performance across cultures, with near zero accuracy on open-ended VQA when queried through native language or speech.

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