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   Documentation for AfriSenti v.1.0

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If you plan to use the dataset for research or academic purposes, please cite the following publication. 


@inproceedings{muhammadSemEval2023,
title = {{SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)}},
author = {Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Idris Abdulmumin and Seid Muhie Yimam and David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Ibrahim Sa'id Ahmad and Nedjma Ousidhoum and Abinew Ali Ayele and Saif M. Mohammad and Meriem Beloucif and Sebastian Ruder},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th {{International Workshop}} on {{Semantic Evaluation}} ({{SemEval-2023}})},
publisher = {{Association for Computational Linguistics}},
year = {2023}
}


@misc{muhammad2023afrisenti,
title={{AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages}},
author={Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Idris Abdulmumin and Abinew Ali Ayele and Nedjma Ousidhoum and David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Seid Muhie Yimam and Ibrahim Sa'id Ahmad and Meriem Beloucif and Saif Mohammad and Sebastian Ruder and Oumaima Hourrane and Pavel Brazdil and Felermino Dário Mário António Ali and Davis Davis and Salomey Osei and Bello Shehu Bello and Falalu Ibrahim and Tajuddeen Gwadabe and Samuel Rutunda and Tadesse Belay and Wendimu Baye Messelle and Hailu Beshada Balcha and Sisay Adugna Chala and Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael and Bernard Opoku and Steven Arthur},
year={2023},
doi={10.48550/arXiv.2302.08956},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08956}
}

}

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Languages
4. Contact Information

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1. Introduction

AfriSenti is an open-source sentiment corpora for African languages and it was used in AfriSenti-SemEval shared task: https://afrisenti-semeval.github.io] Shared task.

For more information, visit the project Github page here: https://github.com/afrisenti-semeval/afrisent-semeval-2023

Languages are:

- Amharic = amh
- arq = Algerian Arabic
- ary = Morocan Arabic
- hau = Hausa
- ibo = Igbo
- kin = Kinyarwanda
- Oromo = Oromo
- Pcm = Nigeria-Pidgin
- Por = Mozambican Portuguess
- Swa = Swahili
- tso = Xithonga
- twi = Twitter
- yor = Yoruba

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2. Contact Information

In case you have any questions regarding AfriSenti, please contact Shamsuddeen Muhammad for further information.
email: shamsuddeen2004@gmail.com
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version 1.0
last modified 04/22/2023