Wazobia Eval: A Benchmark for Nigerian Pidgin Emotion Understanding, Sarcasm Detection, and Cultural Reasoning
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Title:Wazobia Eval: A Benchmark for Nigerian Pidgin Emotion Understanding, Sarcasm Detection, and Cultural Reasoning
Abstract:Nigerian Pidgin is one of Africa's most widely spoken languages, yet remains severely underrepresented in language model evaluation. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on translation, transcription, or generic sentiment analysis, leaving critical aspects of culturally grounded language understanding unmeasured. We introduce Wazobia Eval, a benchmark for evaluating Nigerian Pidgin emotion understanding, sarcasm detection, and cultural reasoning. The benchmark is built on a manually annotated dataset containing over 550 examples and a 16-category emotion taxonomy designed to capture culturally specific emotional registers that are not represented in conventional sentiment frameworks. Wazobia Eval provides standardized evaluation protocols and benchmark tasks for assessing model performance on nuanced Nigerian language understanding. We present the benchmark design, annotation methodology, taxonomy development process, and preliminary pilot evaluation results. Our goal is to provide foundational evaluation infrastructure for Nigerian language AI and establish a reproducible benchmark for future research. The dataset is publicly available at this https URL.
| Comments: | GitHub: this https URL Dataset: this https URL |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.21369 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2608.21369v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.21369
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