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The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages

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The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages. / Emezue, Chris; Nigatu, Hellina; Chukwuneke, Chiamaka et al.
Arxiv, 2023.

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Emezue, C, Nigatu, H, Chukwuneke, C, Thinwa, C, Zhou, H, Muhammad, S, Louis, L, Abdulmumin, I, Oyerinde, S, Ajibade, B, Samuel, O, Joshua, O, Onwuegbuzia, E, Emezue, H, Ige, IA, Tonja, AL, Dossou, BFP, Etori, NA, Emmanuel, MC, Yousuf, O, Aina, K & David, D 2023 'The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages' Arxiv.

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Emezue, C., Nigatu, H., Chukwuneke, C., Thinwa, C., Zhou, H., Muhammad, S., Louis, L., Abdulmumin, I., Oyerinde, S., Ajibade, B., Samuel, O., Joshua, O., Onwuegbuzia, E., Emezue, H., Ige, I. A., Tonja, A. L., Dossou, B. F. P., Etori, N. A., Emmanuel, M. C., ... David, D. (2023). The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages. Arxiv.

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Emezue C, Nigatu H, Chukwuneke C, Thinwa C, Zhou H, Muhammad S et al. The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages. Arxiv. 2023 Mar 21.

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Emezue, Chris ; Nigatu, Hellina ; Chukwuneke, Chiamaka et al. / The African Stopwords project : curating stopwords for African languages. Arxiv, 2023.

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abstract = "Stopwords are fundamental in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for information retrieval. One of the common tasks in preprocessing of text data is the removal of stopwords. Currently, while high-resource languages like English benefit from the availability of several stopwords, low-resource languages, such as those found in the African continent, have none that are standardized and available for use in NLP packages. Stopwords in the context of African languages are understudied and can reveal information about the crossover between languages. The \textit{African Stopwords} project aims to study and curate stopwords for African languages. In this paper, we present our current progress on ten African languages as well as future plans for the project.",
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AU - Chukwuneke, Chiamaka

AU - Thinwa, Cynthia

AU - Zhou, Helper

AU - Muhammad, Shamsuddeen

AU - Louis, Lerato

AU - Abdulmumin, Idris

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