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NaijaNLP: A Survey of Nigerian Low-Resource Languages

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The paper surveys NLP research on Nigeria’s three major low‑resource languages—Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo—covering over 500 languages spoken by 175 million people. It reviews 293 studies, finding that only 27.6% produced new linguistic resources, indicating a heavy reliance on repurposing existing data. The authors highlight under‑explored challenges such as morphological analysis and diacritic representation, and call for collaborative resource enrichment and community support to advance NaijaNLP and low‑resource NLP more broadly.

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