Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026

Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor 2026-05 ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) text conference publication rail-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.0/ A Morpho-Syntactically Annotated Corpus of Ògè Folk Narratives with a Focus on Nominal Structure Priscilla Adenuga author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication adenuga-2026-morpho 10.63317/22aco7jqqkan https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.1/ 2026-05 1 6 Extension of Linguistic Resources for South African Languages: Part-of-Speech Annotated Domain-Specific Data Tanja Gaustad author Roald Eiselen author Cindy Arlene McKellar author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication gaustad-etal-2026-extension 10.63317/4agbqhnpu5hu https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.2/ 2026-05 7 19 Mining Large Language Models for Low-Resource Language Data: Comparing Elicitation Strategies for Hausa and Fongbe Pericles Adjovi author Prasenjit Mitra author Roald Eiselen author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication adjovi-etal-2026-mining 10.63317/46q6m333tn2n https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.3/ 2026-05 20 30 Comparing Source Language Selection Strategies for Multi-Source Cross-Lingual Transfer to African Languages Tewodros Kederalah Idris author Roald Eiselen author Prasenjit Mitra author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication idris-etal-2026-comparing 10.63317/4ye4hekq2tmu https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.4/ 2026-05 31 40 Benchmarking Text Embedding Models for South African Languages Ockert de Villiers author Roald Eiselen author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication de-villiers-eiselen-2026-benchmarking 10.63317/28nicfxsyx92 https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.5/ 2026-05 41 51 Improving Amharic Information Retrieval with Translative and Multi-Agent Debate Retrieval Augmented Generation Abel Alemu Jotie author Prasenjit Mitra author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication jotie-mitra-2026-improving 10.63317/3hbm9z4okcrx https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.6/ 2026-05 52 61 Less can be More: Towards a Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Wav2Vec2 XLSR for Low-Resource Cape Verdean Creole ASR Mateus Neves Andrade author Mouhamadou Lamine Ba author Idy Diop author Arlindo Oliveira da Veiga author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication andrade-etal-2026-less 10.63317/4b6ij7awds27 https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.7/ 2026-05 62 71 From Script to Semantics: Prompting Strategies for African NLI Anuj Tiwari author Terry Oko-odion author Hannah Nwokocha author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication tiwari-etal-2026-script 10.63317/3eydkjk4pzb7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.8/ 2026-05 72 83 HaYo: Repurposing DiaSafety Dataset for Dialogue Safety Evaluation in Hausa and Yoruba Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi author Bolade Deborah Ashaolu author Falalu Ibrahim Lawan author Daud Olamide Abolade author Amina Imam Abubakar author Oluwatosin Ayomide Akinrinde author Murja Sani Gadanya author Omodolapo Dorcas Ashaolu author Abubakar Khalid Auwal author Adewumi Awujoola author Shamsuddeen Umaru Adamu author Israel Olawole Ashaolu author Mihael Arcan author Paul Buitelaar author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication ajayi-etal-2026-hayo 10.63317/2dot9b59z24c https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.9/ 2026-05 84 95 Reclaiming African Voices: Surveying Indigenous Writing Systems for Inclusive NLP Mamady Traore author Ngoc Tan Le author Fatiha Sadat author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication traore-etal-2026-reclaiming 10.63317/2zgo4ih7o2ch https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.10/ 2026-05 96 106 Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in Afrikaans Susan Lotz author Rik van Noord author Gertjan van Noord author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication lotz-etal-2026-getting 10.63317/4th5sqwn9wjb https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.11/ 2026-05 107 120 The Hundzula Retreat-Based Infrastructure Model for African Natural Language Processing Johannes Sibeko author Seani Rananga author Neo N Putini author Dan Masethe author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication sibeko-etal-2026-hundzula 10.63317/54dm3hjmmfdr https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.12/ 2026-05 121 127 Open but Unvetted: The Ethics of African Language Data Ernst A.P. van Gassen author 2026-05 text Proceedings of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) 2026 @ LREC 2026 Muzi Matfunjwa editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Rooweither Mabuya editor Menno van Zaanen editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication van-gassen-2026-open 10.63317/2ewucnr8r5hq https://aclanthology.org/2026.rail-1.13/ 2026-05 128 139