YoNER introduces a new named entity recognition dataset for Yorùbá, a West African language with limited NLP resources. The multi-domain dataset aims to improve NER capabilities and advance language processing for underrepresented African languages.
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YoNER: A New Yor\`ub\'a Multi-domain Named Entity Recognition Dataset
YoNER dataset brings named entity recognition to Yorùbá, a 45+ million speaker West African language with previously limited NLP resources.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.CL (Computation & Language)BY sys://pipeline
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