Papers by Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare

3 papers
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Emotion recognition is an umbrella term for several NLP tasks, but most work on high-resource languages has focused on low-resourced languages.
Approach: They propose to use emotion recognition to describe perceived emotions in 28 different languages and across several domains to identify and annotate the datasets.
Outcome: The proposed datasets cover low-resource languages from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, with instances labeled by fluent speakers.
POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: polarization is a pervasive threat to democratic institutions, civil discourse, and social cohesion worldwide . most existing datasets focus on English or high-resource languages, reflecting a widespread trend across NLP tasks .
Approach: They propose a multilingual, multicultural, and multi-event dataset with over 110K instances in 22 languages drawn from diverse online platforms and real-world events.
Outcome: The proposed dataset analyzes polarization detection, type, and manifestation using a variety of annotation platforms adapted to each cultural context.
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.

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