NaijaNLP: A Survey of Nigerian Low-Resource Languages
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arXiv:2502.19784v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With over 500 languages in Nigeria, three languages - Hausa, Yor\`ub\'a and Igbo spoken by more than 175 million people, account for about 65% of the languages. However, these languages are classed as low-resource due to insufficient digital resources to support tasks in computational linguistics. While several research efforts and initiatives have been presented, a coherent understanding of the state of classic Natural Language Processing (NLP) spanning grammatical formalisation to linguistic resources that support models development i
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2502.19784v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With over 500 languages in Nigeria, three languages - Hausa, Yor\`ub\'a and Igbo spoken by more than 175 million people, account for about 65% of the languages.
- However, these languages are classed as low-resource due to insufficient digital resources to support tasks in computational linguistics.
- While several research efforts and initiatives have been presented, a coherent understanding of the state of classic Natural Language Processing (NLP) spanning grammatical formalisation to linguistic resources that support models development i
Why it matters
“NaijaNLP: A Survey of Nigerian Low-Resource Languages” highlights the need for repeatable measurement rather than a single impressive demonstration. Independent validation across datasets and clearly stated limitations determine whether a result can guide product decisions.
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