@inproceedings{ochieng-etal-2026-reasoning, title = "Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring {LLM} Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts", author = "Ochieng, Millicent and Thieme, Anja and Ezeani, Ignatius and Ueno, Risa and Maina, Samuel Chege and Ronen, Keshet and Gonzalez, Javier and O'Neill, Jacki", editor = "Chimoto, Everlyn Asiko and Lignos, Constantine and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen and Abdulmumin, Idris and Siro, Clemencia and Adelani, David Ifeoluwa", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on {A}frican Natural Language Processing ({A}frica{NLP} 2026)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.africanlp-main.7/", pages = "64--81", ISBN = "979-8-89176-364-7" }