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SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)

arXiv 2304.06845 ↗First posted 13 Apr 2023cs.CLcited by 41

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We present the first Africentric SemEval Shared task, Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) - The dataset is available at https://github.com/afrisenti-semeval/afrisent-semeval-2023. AfriSenti-SemEval is a sentiment classification challenge in 14 African languages: Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mozambican Portuguese, Nigerian Pidgin, Oromo, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Xitsonga, and Yor`ub'a (Muhammad et al., 2023), using data labeled with 3 sentiment classes. We present three subtasks: (1) Task A: monolingual classification, which received 44 submissions; (2) Task B: multilingual classification, which received 32 submissions; and (3) Task C: zero-shot classification, which received 34 submissions. The best performance for tasks A and B was achieved by NLNDE team with 71.31 and 75.06 weighted F1, respectively. UCAS-IIE-NLP achieved the best average score for task C with 58.15 weighted F1. We describe the various approaches adopted by the top 10 systems and their approaches.

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  18. 2023UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Enhancing Generalization of Multilingual BERT for Low-resource Sentiment Analysiscited by 0
  19. 2025AfroXLMR-Comet: Multilingual Knowledge Distillation with Attention Matching for Low-Resource languagescited by 0
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  28. 2026One Threshold Does Not Fit All Languages: Language-Conditional Deferral for Reliable and Efficient Low-Resource Text Classificationcited by 0
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