This repo contains the data for the AfriSenti-SemEval 2023 Shared Task 12: Sentiment Analysis for Low-resource African Languages using Twitter Dataset

More information can be found at the:

• competition website

• shared task website: AfriSenti-SemEval 2023 Shared Task 12

We provide a starter kit for the compeition to create a baseline result. You can open the starter kit in Colab Notebook and run the baseline system. The resultant expirement can be submitted to codalab to ensure all submission format is clear. You can then work on your own system towards the competition.

To run the Colab Notebook, fork this repo first and click the badge "open on colab" on the forked version.

• Task A:

• Task B:

We provide the training and dev set for each task below.

• For SubtaskA : Check SubtaksA
• For SubtaskB : Check SubtaksB
• For SubtaskC : Check SubtaksC

We provide sentiment lexicon in some languages that may be useful for the task.

Shield:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.