AfricaNLP 2027
The 8th Workshop on African Natural Language Processing
EACL 2027, Athens, Greece
9–14 March 2027
One day, hybrid
workshop day to be announced
Programme committee
Committee members are selected for diversity of institution, spoken languages, and experience in low-resource NLP research. We expect 30 to 50 submissions and assign three reviewers per paper, keeping the load at roughly three submissions per reviewer. This keeps reviews thorough.
The following 57 members have agreed to serve, and the list continues to grow.
- Simbiat Ajao, University of Lagos
- Bunmi Akinremi, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife
- Jesujoba Alabi, Universität des Saarlandes
- Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Universidade do Porto
- Victor Jotham Ashioya, Kabarak University
- Tadesse Destaw Belay, Instituto Politécnico Nacional
- Happy Buzaaba, Princeton University
- Emmanuel Kigen Chesire, Kabarak University
- Emmanuel Dorley, University of Florida
- Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Mila and McGill University
- Khalid Elmadani, New York University Abu Dhabi
- Naome A. Etori, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Eric Le Ferrand, Boston College
- Elodie Gauthier, Orange
- Gideon George, Data Science Nigeria
- Agam Goyal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- David Guzmán, University of Toronto
- Tajuddeen Gwadabe, Masakhane Research Foundation
- Cari Beth Head, University of Florida
- Raphael Iyamu, University of Florida
- Sandeep Kumar Jha, LinkedIn Core AI
- Adejumobi Monjolaoluwa Joshua, University of Agriculture Abeokuta
- Sulaiman Kagumire, Makerere University
- Aditi Khandelwal, Mila and McGill University
- Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Hanyang University
- Sujay S. Kumar, Tesla
- Melaku Lake, Injibara University
- Sven Lampe, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
- En-Shiun Annie Lee, Ontario Tech University
- Senyu Li, Mila and McGill University
- Weiran Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
- Elie Mulamba, Université de Kinshasa
- Anjishnu Mukherjee, George Mason University
- Mulubrhan Abebe Nerea, University West
- Gebregziabihier Nigusie, Mizan Tepi University
- Perez Ogayo, Oracle
- Kelechi Ogueji, ServiceNow
- Odunayo Ogundepo, University of Waterloo
- Tolúlopé Ògúnrèmí, Stanford University
- Jessica Ojo, Mila and McGill University
- Ifeoma Okoh, University of Ibadan
- Akintunde Oladipo, University of Waterloo
- Flora Oladipupo, Data Science Nigeria
- Chester Palen-Michel, Brandeis University
- Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
- Van-Thuy Phi, RIKEN
- Stephen D. Richardson, Brigham Young University
- Nathaniel Romney Robinson, Johns Hopkins University
- Elizabeth Salesky, Google DeepMind
- Fabian David Schmidt, Universität Würzburg
- Tajwaa Scott, California State University Los Angeles
- Walelign Tewabe Sewunetie, AIMS Rwanda
- Olamide Shogbamu, Data Science Nigeria
- Rashidat Damilola Sikiru, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife
- Yueqi Song, Carnegie Mellon University
- Jiayi Wang, University College London
- Hao Yu, Mila and McGill University
AfricaNLP 2027. Co-located with EACL 2027, Athens, 9–14 March 2027.