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AfroXLMR-Social
Tadesse/AfroXLMR-Social
AfroXLMR-Social is a fill-mask model from Tadesse. Use it when you need the model to fill a missing word. It is set up for transformers. The card lists the license as mit.
AfroXLMR-Social a social domain specialized model for 19 African Languages.
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At a glance
- Task
- Fill-Mask
- Library
- transformers
- License
- mit
- Model type
- xlm-roberta
- Access
- Public
- Created
- Mar 9, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 18, 2026
- SHA
- b30e35b3
Model card
From the Hugging Face model README
AfroXLMR-Social
AfroXLMR-Social a social domain specialized model for 19 African Languages.
Pre-training corpus
AfriSocial corpus Available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Tadesse/AfriSocial
Languages
- Amharic (amh)
- Somali (som)
- Afrikaans (afr)
- Hausa (hau)
- Igbo (ibo)
- Yorùbá (yor)
- Kinyarwanda (kin)
- Tigrinya (tir)
- Oromo (orm)
- Twi (twi)
- Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
- Algerian Arabic (arq)
- Moroccan Arabic (ary)
- Mozambican Portug. (ptMZ)
- Swahili (swa)
- Makhuwa (vmw)
- Xitsonga (tso)
- Xhosa (xho)
- Zulu (zul)
Acknowledgment
BibTeX entry and citation info.
@misc{belay2025afroxlmrsocialadaptingpretrainedlanguage,
title={AfroXLMR-Social: Adapting Pre-trained Language Models for African Languages Social Media Text},
author={Tadesse Destaw Belay and Israel Abebe Azime and Ibrahim Said Ahmad and David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Idris Abdulmumin and Abinew Ali Ayele and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Seid Muhie Yimam},
year={2025},
eprint={2503.18247},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18247},
}
- Task
- Fill-Mask
- Library
- transformers
- Type
- xlm-roberta
- License
- mit
- Languages
- am, so, sw, zu, ha, yo
- Created
- Mar 9, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 18, 2026