MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages David Ifeoluwa Adelani author Jade Abbott author Graham Neubig author Daniel D’souza author Julia Kreutzer author Constantine Lignos author Chester Palen-Michel author Happy Buzaaba author Shruti Rijhwani author Sebastian Ruder author Stephen Mayhew author Israel Abebe Azime author Shamsuddeen H Muhammad author Chris Chinenye Emezue author Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende author Perez Ogayo author Aremu Anuoluwapo author Catherine Gitau author Derguene Mbaye author Jesujoba Alabi author Seid Muhie Yimam author Tajuddeen Rabiu Gwadabe author Ignatius Ezeani author Rubungo Andre Niyongabo author Jonathan Mukiibi author Verrah Otiende author Iroro Orife author Davis David author Samba Ngom author Tosin Adewumi author Paul Rayson author Mofetoluwa Adeyemi author Gerald Muriuki author Emmanuel Anebi author Chiamaka Chukwuneke author Nkiruka Odu author Eric Peter Wairagala author Samuel Oyerinde author Clemencia Siro author Tobius Saul Bateesa author Temilola Oloyede author Yvonne Wambui author Victor Akinode author Deborah Nabagereka author Maurice Katusiime author Ayodele Awokoya author Mouhamadane MBOUP author Dibora Gebreyohannes author Henok Tilaye author Kelechi Nwaike author Degaga Wolde author Abdoulaye Faye author Blessing Sibanda author Orevaoghene Ahia author Bonaventure F P Dossou author Kelechi Ogueji author Thierno Ibrahima DIOP author Abdoulaye Diallo author Adewale Akinfaderin author Tendai Marengereke author Salomey Osei author 2021 text journal article Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics continuing MIT Press Cambridge, MA periodical academic journal adelani-etal-2021-masakhaner 10.1162/tacl_a_00416 https://aclanthology.org/2021.tacl-1.66/ 2021 9 1116 1131