I just peer reviewed an interesting article for the journal PeerJ — Computer Science and I appreciate your effort editors. Keep it up.

We are glad to announce the first SemEval shared task targeting African languages, AfriSenti-SemEval, Task 12. The shared task includes different prizes. Competition: codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/7… AfriSenti: afrisenti-semeval.github.io AfriSenti SemEval-2023 Shared Task 12 Ethio NLP EMNLP 2025

We are happy to share that our work, entitled “Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities” has been accepted to the RAIL workshop at EACL 2023. Atnafu Lambebo 🇪🇹 Tadesse Israel Abebe | እስራኤል አበበ Abinew, Moges Seid M #RAIL2023 eaclmeeting

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 🤝 Relaciones Exteriores Un placer documentar hoy en Embajada de México en Etiopía a Lemlem Eyob Kawo y Tadesse Destaw Belay, becarios etíopes de Maestría y Doctorado del Programa Nacional de Posgrados @Conahcyt_Mex en Ciencias de la Computación IPN CIC IPN #Ethiopia🇪🇹🤝#México🇲🇽

🎉We are happy to announce our work "EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation" has been accepted to LREC COLING 2024 2024. 1/🧵

🎊Our members are shining at LREC COLING 2024. Abinew Ali Ayele has presented two original papers at the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression, and Cyberbullying, which is co-located with LREC-COLING2024, in Turin, Italy. The papers are:🧵

Excited to attend #NAACL2024, Mexico City🇲🇽🥳

Participaciones: 💢Atnafu Lambebo, su paper fue aceptado para NAACL Main Conference 💢Poster de Luis Ramos Pérez y Eponon anvi alex 💢Workshop de Tadesse Destaud Artículo presentado: "NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages" aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-lon… ¡Muchas felicidades!

We are glad to announce SemEval shared task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection. New textual datasets will be provided for 33 lgges (with many low-resource lgges)! Task GitHub: github.com/emotion-analys… CodaBench: codabench.org/competitions/3… Tracks👇🏻🧵1/

Our work has been accepted to the #EMNLP2024 Findings! 🎉

Check out our SemEval shared task on perceived emotion in #NLProc github.com/emotion-analys… We released various datasets as well as resources for newcomers and students such lexicons and a blogpost on how to write a system description paper github.com/nedjmaou/Writi… 1/

👋EthioNLP at EMNLP 2024 Atnafu Lambebo 🇪🇹 Hellina Hailu Nigatu Tadesse Destaw #EMNLP2024

We have >600 participants registered on CodaBench! 😀 The eval phase is still ongoing, you can still join the competition and test you models on >30 languages (high-, mid- and low-resource). We'll have a paper writing tutorial in Feb if you're new to #NLProc.

Call for Papers: We invite submissions to the 6th AfricaNLP Workshop, co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Theme: "Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025 (AoE) Site: sites.google.com/view/africanlp… Masakhane David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 ACL 2025

Calling all #NLP enthusiasts! Join us for the 1st Workshop on NLP for Ethiopian Languages, co-located with ICES22 at Hawassa University 🇪🇹. 📅 Submit by May 20, 2025 📣 Notifications on June 15, 2025 📄 Full papers due June 30, 2025 📍 Workshop: Sept 29–Oct 3, 2025

5 papers accepted at #EMNLP2025: pp below - SSA-COMET arxiv.org/abs/2506.04557 Senyu Li - AfriDOC-MT arxiv.org/abs/2501.06374 & African NLP survey arxiv.org/abs/2505.21315 Jesujoba Alabi - TransWebLLM arxiv.org/abs/2502.13252 - AfroXLMR-Social arxiv.org/abs/2503.18247

Bridging the Culture Gap: A Framework for LLM-Driven Socio-Cultural Localization of Math Word Problems in Low-Resource Languages. arxiv.org/abs/2508.14913