MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages David Ifeoluwa Adelani author Marek Masiak author Israel Abebe Azime author Jesujoba Alabi author Atnafu Lambebo Tonja author Christine Mwase author Odunayo Ogundepo author Bonaventure F P Dossou author Akintunde Oladipo author Doreen Nixdorf author Chris Chinenye Emezue author Sana Al-azzawi author Blessing Sibanda author Davis David author Lolwethu Ndolela author Jonathan Mukiibi author Tunde Ajayi author Tatiana Moteu author Brian Odhiambo author Abraham Owodunni author Nnaemeka Obiefuna author Muhidin Mohamed author Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad author Teshome Mulugeta Ababu author Saheed Abdullahi Salahudeen author Mesay Gemeda Yigezu author Tajuddeen Gwadabe author Idris Abdulmumin author Mahlet Taye author Oluwabusayo Awoyomi author Iyanuoluwa Shode author Tolulope Adelani author Habiba Abdulganiyu author Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo author Adetola Adeeko author Abeeb Afolabi author Anuoluwapo Aremu author Olanrewaju Samuel author Clemencia Siro author Wangari Kimotho author Onyekachi Ogbu author Chinedu Mbonu author Chiamaka Chukwuneke author Samuel Fanijo author Jessica Ojo author Oyinkansola Awosan author Tadesse Kebede author Toadoum Sari Sakayo author Pamela Nyatsine author Freedmore Sidume author Oreen Yousuf author Mardiyyah Oduwole author Kanda Tshinu author Ussen Kimanuka author Thina Diko author Siyanda Nxakama author Sinodos Nigusse author Abdulmejid Johar author Shafie Mohamed author Fuad Mire Hassan author Moges Ahmed Mehamed author Evrard Ngabire author Jules Jules author Ivan Ssenkungu author Pontus Stenetorp author 2023-11 text Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) Jong C Park editor Yuki Arase editor Baotian Hu editor Wei Lu editor Derry Wijaya editor Ayu Purwarianti editor Adila Alfa Krisnadhi editor Association for Computational Linguistics Nusa Dua, Bali conference publication adelani-etal-2023-masakhanews 10.18653/v1/2023.ijcnlp-main.10 https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.10/ 2023-11 144 159