SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval)
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Abinew Ali Ayele, Saif Mohammad, Meriem Beloucif, Sebastian Ruder
Abstract
We present the first Africentric SemEval Shared task, Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) - The dataset is available at https://github.com/afrisenti-semeval/afrisent-semeval-2023. AfriSenti-SemEval is a sentiment classification challenge in 14 African languages: Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mozambican Portuguese, Nigerian Pidgin, Oromo, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Xitsonga, and Yorb (Muhammad et al., 2023), using data labeled with 3 sentiment classes. We present three subtasks: (1) Task A: monolingual classification, which received 44 submissions; (2) Task B: multilingual classification, which received 32 submissions; and (3) Task C: zero-shot classification, which received 34 submissions. The best performance for tasks A and B was achieved by NLNDE team with 71.31 and 75.06 weighted F1, respectively. UCAS-IIE-NLP achieved the best average score for task C with 58.15 weighted F1. We describe the various approaches adopted by the top 10 systems and their approaches.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.semeval-1.315
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Toronto, Canada
- Editors:
- Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2319–2337
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.315
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.315
- Cite (ACL):
- Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Seid Muhie Yimam, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Abinew Ali Ayele, Saif Mohammad, Meriem Beloucif, and Sebastian Ruder. 2023. SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval). In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 2319–2337, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SemEval-2023 Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for African Languages (AfriSenti-SemEval) (Muhammad et al., SemEval 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-2024-clasp/2023.semeval-1.315.pdf