NaijaSenti
is an open-source sentiment and emotion corpora for four major Nigerian languages. This project was supported by lacuna-fund initiatives. Jump straight to one of the sections below, or just scroll down to find out more.
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Paper
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Abstract
Sentiment analysis is one of the most widely studied applications in NLP, but most work focuses on languages with large amounts of data. We introduce the first large-scale human-annotated Twitter sentiment dataset for the four most widely spoken languages in Nigeria—Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian-Pidgin, and Yorùbá—consisting of around 30,000 annotated tweets per language (except for Nigerian-Pidgin), including a significant fraction of code-mixed tweets. We propose text collection, filtering, processing, and labelling methods that enable us to create datasets for these low-resource languages. We evaluate a range of pre-trained models and transfer strategies on the dataset. We find that language-specific models and language-adaptive fine-tuning generally perform best. We make the datasets, trained models, sentiment lexicons, and code available to encourage sentiment analysis research in under-represented languages.
Download NaijaSenti Datasets
Manually Annotated Twitter Sentiment Dataset
1.Manually Annotated Sentiment Lexicon
2.Semi-automatically Translated emotion lexicon
3.Semi-automatically Translated sentiment lexicon
4.Large Scale Unlabled Twitter Sentiment Corpus
5.Stop-words for Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba
5.Model
Citation
If you use this data in your work, please cite:
@misc{muhammad2022naijasenti,
title={NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis},
author={Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Ibrahim Said Ahmad and Idris Abdulmumin and Bello Shehu Bello and Monojit Choudhury and Chris Chinenye Emezue and Anuoluwapo Aremu and Saheed Abdul and Pavel Brazdil},
year={2022},
eprint={2201.08277},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
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Contact us
If you want to report a problem or suggest an enhancement we'd love for you to open an issue at this github repository because then we can get right on it. But you can also contact us by email (hausanlp AT gmail DOT com) or on twitter.
Changelog
- 2022-01-21: Released NaijaSenti v1.0.0
License
The dataset is licenced under CC-BY-SA, see the LICENSE file for details.