AfriSenti

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Dataset Information
Introduced
2023
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Overview

AfriSenti is the largest sentiment analysis dataset for under-represented African languages, covering 110,000+ annotated tweets in 14 African languages (Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mozambican Portuguese, Nigerian Pidgin, Oromo, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Xitsonga, and Yoruba).

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Zero-shot Sentiment Classification SACL-XLMR UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: … 2023-06-01
Zero-shot Sentiment Classification AfroXLMR UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: … 2023-06-01
Zero-shot Sentiment Classification AfriBERTa UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: … 2023-06-01
Zero-shot Sentiment Classification XLM-R UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: … 2023-06-01
Zero-shot Sentiment Classification Random UCAS-IIE-NLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: … 2023-06-01

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset: