Papers by Pavel Brazdil
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages (2023.emnlp-main)
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Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ayele, Nedjma Ousidhoum, David Adelani, Seid Yimam, Ibrahim Ahmad, Meriem Beloucif, Saif Mohammad, Sebastian Ruder, Oumaima Hourrane, Alipio Jorge, Pavel Brazdil, Felermino Ali, Davis David, Salomey Osei, Bello Shehu-Bello, Falalu Lawan, Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Belay, Wendimu Messelle, Hailu Balcha, Sisay Chala, Hagos Gebremichael, Bernard Opoku, Stephen Arthur
| Challenge: | Africa has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. |
| Approach: | They introduce a sentiment analysis benchmark that contains >110,000 tweets in 14 African languages . they describe the data collection methodology, annotation process, and challenges . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains >110,000 tweets in 14 African languages . the tweets were annotated by native speakers and used in the shared task . |
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis (2022.lrec-1)
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Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Sebastian Ruder, Ibrahim Sa’id Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Bello Shehu Bello, Monojit Choudhury, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Saheed Salahudeen Abdullahi, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Alípio Jorge, Pavel Brazdil
| Challenge: | Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in NLP, but most work focuses on languages with large amounts of data. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale human-annotated Twitter sentiment dataset for the four most widely spoken languages in Nigeria. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes 30,000 tweets and a significant fraction of code-mixed tweets. |