Papers by Nnaemeka Casmir Obiefuna
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages (2026.acl-long)
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Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Muhidin A. Mohamed, Debela Desalegn Yadeta, Negasi Haile Abadi, Abigail Oppong, Nnaemeka Casmir Obiefuna, Idris Abdulmumin, Naome A Etori, Eric Peter Wairagala, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Imanigirimbabazi Emmanuel, Gabofetswe Malema, Alham Fikri Aji, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Thamar Solorio
| 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. |