I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Data Science for Social Impact research group, University of Pretoria, currently working on natural language processing with a focus on low-resource African languages. I previously did research at various institutions collaborating with researchers from HausaNLP, Masakhane, and LITHME communities. My work focuses on developing and improving NLP technologies and resources for African languages, particularly machine translation, sentiment and emotion analysis, hate speech detection, and semantic textual relatedness. I've contributed to several landmark datasets and models for African languages including AfriHate, AfriSenti, MasakhaNEWS, MasakhaNER, and HaVQA.
I'm particularly interested in investigating techniques to improve machine translation for low-resource scenarios through methods like back-translation, self-learning, and data filtering. My recent work has focused on creating multilingual resources and models that can benefit multiple African languages simultaneously. I aim to help bridge the technological gap for African languages by developing both foundational datasets and practical NLP applications.
Publications
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, A. Ayele, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, I. Ahmad, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Lilian D. A. Wanzare, Samuel Rutunda, L. J. Aliyu, E. Alemneh, Oumaima Hourrane, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Elyas Abdi Ismail, Meriem Beloucif, Ebrahim Chekol Jibril, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Salomey Osei, Abigail Oppong, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Tadesse Kebede Guge, T. Asfaw, C. Chukwuneke, Paul Rottger, Seid Muhie Yimam, N. Ousidhoum
Mitigating Translationese in Low-resource Languages: The Storyboard Approach
Garry Kuwanto, E. Urua, Priscilla Amuok, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Anuoluwapo Aremu, V. Otiende, Loice Emma Nanyanga, T. Nyoike, A. D. Akpan, Nsima Ab Udouboh, Idongesit Udeme Archibong, Idara Effiong Moses, Ifeoluwatayo A. Ige, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, Olumide Benjamin Awokoya, Idris Abdulmumin, Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, R. Iro, I. Ahmad, Deontae Smith, Praise-EL Michaels, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Anietie U Andy
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2024
CIRAL: A Test Collection for CLIR Evaluations in African Languages
Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Akintunde Oladipo, Xinyu Crystina Zhang, David Alfonso-Hermelo, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Boxing Chen, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Idris Abdulmumin, Naome A. Etori, Toyib Babatunde Musa, Samuel Fanijo, Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Labaran Adamu Mohammed, D. Abolade, F. I. Lawan, Maryam Sabo Abubakar, R. Iro, A. A. Imam, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Hanad Mohamud Mohamed, T. Ajayi, Jimmy Lin
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2024
SemEval Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
N. Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, I. Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Oumaima Hourrane, Manish Shrivastava, T. Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif Mohammad
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2024
SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 14 Languages
N. Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, I. Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, A. Ayele, Pavan Baswani, Meriem Beloucif, Christian Biemann, Sofia Bourhim, Christine de Kock, Genet Shanko Dekebo, Oumaima Hourrane, Gopichand Kanumolu, Lokesh Madasu, Samuel Rutunda, Manish Shrivastava, T. Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Hailegnaw Getaneh Tilaye, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Genta Indra Winata, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif Mohammad
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024
Analyzing COVID-19 Vaccination Sentiments in Nigerian Cyberspace: Insights from a Manually Annotated Twitter Dataset
I. Ahmad, L. J. Aliyu, Abubakar Auwal Khalid, S. M. Aliyu, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, B.M. Abduljalil, Bello Shehu Bello, Amina Imam Abubakar
arXiv.org 2024
HaVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Hausa Language
Shantipriya Parida, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Aneesh Bose, Guneet Singh Kohli, I. Ahmad, Ketan Kotwal, Sayan Deb Sarkar, Ondrej Bojar, H. Kakudi
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023
HausaNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Transfer Learning, Synthetic Data and Side-information for Multi-level Sexism Classification
Saminu Mohammad Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, I. Ahmad, Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen, Aliyu Yusuf, F. I. Lawan
International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2023
MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Marek Masiak, Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, A. Tonja, Christine Mwase, Odunayo Ogundepo, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Akintunde Oladipo, Doreen Nixdorf, Chris C. Emezue, S. Al-Azzawi, Blessing K. Sibanda, Davis David, Lolwethu Ndolela, Jonathan Mukiibi, T. Ajayi, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, B. Odhiambo, A. Owodunni, Nnaemeka Obiefuna, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, S. S. Abdullahi, M. Yigezu, T. Gwadabe, Idris Abdulmumin, Mahlet Taye Bame, Oluwabusayo Olufunke Awoyomi, Iyanuoluwa Shode, T. Adelani, Habiba Abdulganiy Kailani, Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Adetola Adeeko, Afolabi Abeeb, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Olanrewaju Samuel, Clemencia Siro, Wangari Kimotho, Onyekachi Raphael Ogbu, C. Mbonu, C. Chukwuneke, Samuel Fanijo, Jessica Ojo, Oyinkansola F. Awosan, Tadesse Kebede Guge, Sakayo Toadoum Sari, Pamela Nyatsine, Freedmore Sidume, Oreen Yousuf, Mardiyyah Oduwole, Ussen Kimanuka, Kanda Patrick Tshinu, Thina Diko, Siyanda Nxakama, Abdulmejid Tuni Johar, Sinodos Gebre, Muhidin A. Mohamed, Shafie Abdi Mohamed, Fuad Mire Hassan, Moges Ahmed Mehamed, Evrard Ngabire, Pontus Stenetorp
International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2023
The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages
Chris C. Emezue, H. Nigatu, Cynthia Thinwa, He Zhou, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Lerato Louis, Idris Abdulmumin, S. Oyerinde, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, Olanrewaju Samuel, Oviawe Joshua, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Handel Emezue, Ifeoluwatayo A. Ige, A. Tonja, C. Chukwuneke, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Naome A. Etori, Mbonu Chinedu Emmanuel, Oreen Yousuf, Kaosarat Aina, Davis David
arXiv.org 2023
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, A. Ayele, N. Ousidhoum, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam, I. Ahmad, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad, Sebastian Ruder, Oumaima Hourrane, P. Brazdil, Felermino D'ario M'ario Ant'onio Ali, Davis C. Davis, Salomey Osei, Bello Shehu Bello, Falalu Ibrahim, T. Gwadabe, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Wendimu Baye Messelle, Hailu Beshada Balcha, S. Chala, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Bernard Opoku, Steven Arthur
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2023
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
Teven Le Scao, Angela Fan, Christopher Akiki, Ellie Pavlick, Suzana Ili'c, Daniel Hesslow, Roman Castagn'e, A. Luccioni, François Yvon, Matthias Gallé, J. Tow, Alexander M. Rush, Stella Biderman, Albert Webson, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi, Thomas Wang, Benoît Sagot, Niklas Muennighoff, Albert Villanova del Moral, Olatunji Ruwase, Rachel Bawden, Stas Bekman, Angelina McMillan-Major, Iz Beltagy, Huu Nguyen, Lucile Saulnier, Samson Tan, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Victor Sanh, Hugo Laurenccon, Yacine Jernite, Julien Launay, Margaret Mitchell, Colin Raffel, Aaron Gokaslan, Adi Simhi, Aitor Soroa Etxabe, Alham Fikri Aji, Amit Alfassy, Anna Rogers, Ariel Kreisberg Nitzav, Canwen Xu, Chenghao Mou, Chris C. Emezue, Christopher Klamm, Colin Leong, Daniel Alexander van Strien, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Dragomir R. Radev, E. G. Ponferrada, Efrat Levkovizh, Ethan Kim, Eyal Natan, F. Toni, Gérard Dupont, Germán Kruszewski, Giada Pistilli, Hady ElSahar, Hamza Benyamina, H. Tran, Ian Yu, Idris Abdulmumin, Isaac Johnson, ..., Thomas Wolf
arXiv.org 2022
MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder, Shruti Rijhwani, Michael Beukman, Chester Palen-Michel, Constantine Lignos, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Peter Nabende, Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Andiswa Bukula, Rooweither Mabuya, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing K. Sibanda, Happy Buzaaba, Jonathan Mukiibi, Godson Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, Amelia Taylor, F. Kabore, Chris C. Emezue, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Perez Ogayo, C. Gitau, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, V. M. Koagne, A. Tapo, Tebogo Macucwa, Vukosi Marivate, Elvis Mboning, T. Gwadabe, Tosin P. Adewumi, Orevaoghene Ahia, J. Nakatumba‐Nabende, Neo L. Mokono, Ignatius M Ezeani, C. Chukwuneke, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Gilles Hacheme, Idris Abdulmumin, Odunayo Ogundepo, Oreen Yousuf, Tatiana Moteu Ngoli, D. Klakow
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2022
Separating Grains from the Chaff: Using Data Filtering to Improve Multilingual Translation for Low-Resourced African Languages
Idris Abdulmumin, Michael Beukman, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Chris C. Emezue, Everlyn Asiko, Tosin P. Adewumi, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Oreen Yousuf, Sahib Singh, T. Gwadabe
Conference on Machine Translation 2022
A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan, Julia Kreutzer, Xiaoyu Shen, Machel Reid, Dana Ruiter, D. Klakow, Peter Nabende, Ernie Chang, T. Gwadabe, Freshia Sackey, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Chris C. Emezue, Colin Leong, Michael Beukman, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Guyo Dub Jarso, Oreen Yousuf, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Gilles Hacheme, Eric Peter Wairagala, Muhammad Umair Nasir, Benjamin Ayoade Ajibade, T. Ajayi, Yvonne Wambui Gitau, Jade Z. Abbott, Mohamed Ahmed, Millicent Ochieng, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Perez Ogayo, Jonathan Mukiibi, F. Kabore, Godson Kalipe, Derguene Mbaye, A. Tapo, V. M. Koagne, Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng, Valencia Wagner, Idris Abdulmumin, Ayodele Awokoya, Happy Buzaaba, Blessing K. Sibanda, Andiswa Bukula, Sam Manthalu
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2022
Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation
Idris Abdulmumin, S. Dash, Musa Abdullahi Dawud, Shantipriya Parida, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, I. Ahmad, Subhadarshi Panda, Ondrej Bojar, B. Galadanci, Bello Shehu Bello
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2022
Quantity vs. Quality of Monolingual Source Data in Automatic Text Translation: Can It Be Too Little If It Is Too Good?
Idris Abdulmumin, B. Galadanci, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Garba Aliyu
2022 IEEE Nigeria 4th International Conference on Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development (NIGERCON) 2022
Machine Learning Based Intrusion Detection on Complex Nested Transactional SQL Queries
G. Aliyu, George Thandekkattu, Idris Abdulmumin, U. Baba, Aminat Bolatito Yusuf, Mustapha Nasir
2022 IEEE Nigeria 4th International Conference on Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development (NIGERCON) 2022
NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, I. Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Bello Shehu Bello, M. Choudhury, Chris C. Emezue, Anuoluwapo Aremu, Saheed Abdul, P. Brazdil
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation 2022
A Systematic Literature Review of Hausa Natural Language Processing
Rufai Yusuf Zakari, Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal, Idris Abdulmumin
International journal of computer and information technologies 2021
Iterative Self-Learning for Enhanced Back-Translation in Low Resource Neural Machine Translation
Idris Abdulmumin, B. Galadanci, Ismaila Idris Sinan
arXiv.org 2020
Enhanced Back-Translation for Low Resource Neural Machine Translation Using Self-training
Idris Abdulmumin, B. Galadanci, Abubakar Isa
Information and Communication Technologies and Accessibility 2020
A More Comprehensive Method for Using The Target-side Monolingual Data to Improve Low Resource Neural Machine Translation.
Idris Abdulmumin, B. Galadanci, Abubakar Isa
An Autonomous Courses Recommender System For Undergraduate Using Machine Learning Techniques
Murtala Isma'il, Usman Haruna, G. Aliyu, Idris Abdulmumin, Shehu Adamu
2020 International Conference in Mathematics, Computer Engineering and Computer Science (ICMCECS) 2020
A FRI S ENTI : A B ENCHMARK T WITTER S ENTIMENT A NALYSIS D ATASET FOR A FRICAN L ANGUAGES
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, A. Ayele, N. Ousidhoum, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad, Sebastian Ruder, Oumaima Hourrane, P. Brazdil, Felermino M. D. A. Ali, Davis David, Salomey Osei, Bello Shehu Bello, Falalu Ibrahim, T. Gwadabe, Samuel Rutunda, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Wendimu Baye Messelle, Hailu Beshada Balcha, S. Chala, Hagos Tesfahun Gebremichael, Bernard Opoku, Steven Arthur
NECAT-CLWE: A S IMPLE B UT E FFICIENT P ARALLEL D ATA G ENERATION A PPROACH FOR L OW R ESOURCE N EURAL M ACHINE T RANSLATION
Rabiu Ibrahim, Abdullahi, Idris Abdulmumin
Data Selection as an Alternative to Quality Estimation in Self-Learning for Low Resource Neural Machine Translation
Idris Abdulmumin, B. Galadanci, I. Ahmad, Rabiu Ibrahim Abdullahi
Communication Systems and Applications 2021
Machine Learning Model for Recommending Suitable Courses of Study to Candidates in Nigerian Universities
Aliyu Dadan Garba, Usman Haruna, Idris Abdulmumin, Murtala Isma'il, Ibrahim Enesi Umar, Shehu Adamu
Communication Systems and Applications 2021
HausaHate: An Expert Annotated Corpus for Hausa Hate Speech Detection
F. Vargas, Samuel Guimarães, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Diego Alves, I. Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Diallo Mohamed, Thiago A. S. Pardo, Fabrício Benevenuto
WOAH 2024
Findings of WMT2024 English-to-Low Resource Multimodal Translation Task
Shantipriya Parida, Ondrej Bojar, Idris Abdulmumin, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, I. Ahmad
Conference on Machine Translation 2024
SemEval Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness for African and Asian Languages
N. Ousidhoum, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Mohamed Abdalla, Idris Abdulmumin, I. Ahmad, Sanchit Ahuja, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Oumaima Hourrane, Manish Shrivastava, T. Solorio, Nirmal Surange, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Seid Muhie Yimam, Saif Mohammad
SemEval@NAACL 2024