Advancing sentiment analysis for low-resourced african languages using pre-trained language models

• Koena Ronny Mabokela ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koena Ronny Mabokela, Mpho Primus, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmabokela@uj.ac.za

  Affiliations School of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Applied Information Systems, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8058-969X

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• Mpho Primus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koena Ronny Mabokela, Mpho Primus, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Turgay Celik

  Contributed equally to this work with: Koena Ronny Mabokela, Mpho Primus, Turgay Celik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6925-6010

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