The Rise of AfricaNLP: A Survey of Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis
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| author | Belay, Tadesse Destaw Hussen, Kedir Yassin Imam, Sukairaj Hafiz Ahmad, Ibrahim Said Inuwa-Dutse, Isa Haile, Abrham Belete Sidorov, Grigori Vazquez, Eusebio Ricardez Ameer, Iqra Abdulmumin, Idris Gwadabe, Tajuddeen Marivate, Vukosi Yimam, Seid Muhie Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan |
| author_facet | Belay, Tadesse Destaw Hussen, Kedir Yassin Imam, Sukairaj Hafiz Ahmad, Ibrahim Said Inuwa-Dutse, Isa Haile, Abrham Belete Sidorov, Grigori Vazquez, Eusebio Ricardez Ameer, Iqra Abdulmumin, Idris Gwadabe, Tajuddeen Marivate, Vukosi Yimam, Seid Muhie Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan |
| contents | Natural Language Processing (NLP) is undergoing constant transformation, as Large Language Models (LLMs) are driving daily breakthroughs in research and practice. In this regard, tracking the progress of NLP research and automatically analyzing the contributions of research papers provides key insights into the nature of the field and the researchers. This study explores the progress of African NLP (AfricaNLP) by asking (and answering) research questions about the progress of AfricaNLP (publications, NLP topics, and NLP tasks), contributions (data, method, and task), and contributors (authors, affiliated institutions, and funding bodies). We quantitatively examine two decades (2005 - 2025) of contributions to AfricaNLP research, using a dataset of 2.2K NLP papers, 4.9K contributing authors, and 7.8K human-annotated contribution sentences (AfricaNLPContributions), along with benchmark results. Our dataset and AfricaNLP research explorer tool will provide a powerful lens for tracing AfricaNLP research trends and holds potential for generating data-driven research approaches. The resource can be found in GitHub. |
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| spellingShingle | The Rise of AfricaNLP: A Survey of Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis Belay, Tadesse Destaw Hussen, Kedir Yassin Imam, Sukairaj Hafiz Ahmad, Ibrahim Said Inuwa-Dutse, Isa Haile, Abrham Belete Sidorov, Grigori Vazquez, Eusebio Ricardez Ameer, Iqra Abdulmumin, Idris Gwadabe, Tajuddeen Marivate, Vukosi Yimam, Seid Muhie Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan Computation and Language Natural Language Processing (NLP) is undergoing constant transformation, as Large Language Models (LLMs) are driving daily breakthroughs in research and practice. In this regard, tracking the progress of NLP research and automatically analyzing the contributions of research papers provides key insights into the nature of the field and the researchers. This study explores the progress of African NLP (AfricaNLP) by asking (and answering) research questions about the progress of AfricaNLP (publications, NLP topics, and NLP tasks), contributions (data, method, and task), and contributors (authors, affiliated institutions, and funding bodies). We quantitatively examine two decades (2005 - 2025) of contributions to AfricaNLP research, using a dataset of 2.2K NLP papers, 4.9K contributing authors, and 7.8K human-annotated contribution sentences (AfricaNLPContributions), along with benchmark results. Our dataset and AfricaNLP research explorer tool will provide a powerful lens for tracing AfricaNLP research trends and holds potential for generating data-driven research approaches. The resource can be found in GitHub. |
| title | The Rise of AfricaNLP: A Survey of Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25477 |