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A Survey of Text and Speech Resources for Hausa and Fongbe: Availability, Quality, and Gaps for NLP Development

Mahounan Pericles Adjovi , Victor Olufemi , Roald Eiselen , Prasenjit Mitra This is my paper

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Hausa has broader text resource diversity than Fongbe while both languages show specific gaps in speech and domain coverage for NLP.

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The paper catalogs publicly available text and speech resources for Hausa and Fongbe through a systematic search of repositories and web sources. It documents that Hausa draws from news, encyclopedic, and educational domains with greater variety, whereas Fongbe has fewer text options but benefits from recent academic speech collections. Both languages appear in shared benchmarks for named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging. The survey supplies task-specific recommendations and flags priority gaps such as domain-diverse Fongbe text and dedicated Hausa speech corpora. A sympathetic reader would care because these details show exactly where new data collection can advance language technology for millions of speakers.

Core claim

The survey finds that Hausa benefits from broader text resource diversity across news, encyclopedic, and educational domains while Fongbe has more limited text resources but recent academic speech data collection initiatives. Both languages are represented in Masakhane benchmarks for NER and POS tagging. The catalog records size, domain coverage, format, licensing, and accessibility for parallel corpora, monolingual text, speech datasets, pre-trained models, and evaluation benchmarks, leading to concrete recommendations on remaining gaps.

What carries the argument

The systematic catalog of resources by size, domain coverage, format, licensing, and accessibility, which establishes the contrast in availability and identifies the priority gaps.

If this is right

  • NLP developers can target domain-diverse Fongbe text collection as a high-priority next step.
  • Dedicated Hausa speech corpora should be created to match the existing text resources.
  • Existing Masakhane benchmarks for NER and POS tagging can serve as starting points for further work on both languages.
  • Task-specific recommendations guide where to allocate effort in building models and evaluation sets.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • Closing the identified gaps could enable more robust machine translation or information extraction tools that serve Hausa and Fongbe speakers directly.
  • The pattern of one language having stronger text coverage and the other stronger speech data may appear in surveys of additional low-resource languages.
  • Public release of the catalog itself could reduce duplication in future data collection projects.

Load-bearing premise

The systematic search of academic repositories, data platforms, and web sources captured a sufficiently complete and up-to-date picture of all publicly available resources without major omissions.

What would settle it

The discovery of a previously unlisted large Fongbe text collection spanning multiple domains or a substantial public Hausa speech corpus that would change which gaps rank as highest priority.

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This survey provides a comprehensive catalog of publicly available text and speech resources for two West African languages: Hausa, an Afroasiatic language with approximately 80-100 million speakers, and Fongbe, a Niger-Congo language spoken by approximately 2 million people in Benin. These languages represent contrasting cases on the resource availability spectrum. We address the question: \textit{What is the current state of publicly available NLP resources for Hausa and Fongbe, and what gaps remain?} Through systematic search of academic repositories, data platforms, and web sources, we catalog parallel corpora, monolingual text collections, speech datasets, pre-trained models, and evaluation benchmarks. For each resource, we document size, domain coverage, format, licensing, and accessibility. Our findings reveal that Hausa benefits from broader text resource diversity across news, encyclopedic, and educational domains. Fongbe, while having more limited text resources, has been the focus of recent academic speech data collection initiatives. Both languages are represented in Masakhane benchmarks for NER and POS tagging. We provide task-specific recommendations and identify priority gaps including domain-diverse Fongbe text and dedicated Hausa speech corpora.

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Summary. The paper surveys publicly available text and speech resources for Hausa (Afroasiatic, ~80-100M speakers) and Fongbe (Niger-Congo, ~2M speakers) via a systematic search of academic repositories, data platforms, and web sources. It catalogs parallel corpora, monolingual text collections, speech datasets, pre-trained models, and evaluation benchmarks, documenting size, domain, format, licensing, and accessibility for each. Key findings include broader text diversity for Hausa across news/encyclopedic/educational domains, more limited Fongbe text but recent academic speech collections, representation of both in Masakhane NER/POS benchmarks, and priority gaps in domain-diverse Fongbe text and dedicated Hausa speech corpora.

Significance. If the catalog proves complete and replicable, the survey would provide a useful baseline reference for NLP development in these West African languages, clarifying availability contrasts and directing data collection priorities in low-resource settings.

major comments (1)
  1. [Methods] Methods section: the description of the 'systematic search' provides no exact search strings, search date(s), inclusion/exclusion criteria, or platform-specific query details. This omission prevents verification of completeness and directly undermines the central claims about relative resource diversity, limitations, and priority gaps between Hausa and Fongbe.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback highlighting the need for greater methodological transparency. We address the single major comment below and will incorporate the requested details in a revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the description of the 'systematic search' provides no exact search strings, search date(s), inclusion/exclusion criteria, or platform-specific query details. This omission prevents verification of completeness and directly undermines the central claims about relative resource diversity, limitations, and priority gaps between Hausa and Fongbe.

    Authors: We agree that the Methods section requires additional detail to support replicability and verification of our claims. In the revision we will add: (1) the exact search strings and Boolean combinations used on each platform (Google Scholar, ACL Anthology, arXiv, Hugging Face Datasets, Masakhane repositories, and language-specific web sources); (2) the date ranges of all searches (e.g., searches performed between January and March 2024); (3) explicit inclusion/exclusion criteria (publicly accessible resources with documented size, domain, and licensing; exclusion of private or paywalled data without clear release statements); and (4) platform-specific query examples. These additions will directly enable readers to assess the completeness of the catalog and the robustness of the identified gaps between Hausa and Fongbe resources. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely descriptive survey of external resources

full rationale

The paper is a catalog and gap analysis of publicly hosted text and speech datasets for Hausa and Fongbe. It contains no equations, no fitted parameters, no predictions, no uniqueness theorems, and no derivation chain. All claims reduce to enumeration of external repositories (Masakhane, academic platforms, web sources) whose existence and properties are independently verifiable outside the paper. The search methodology is a standard literature-review step, not a self-referential construction. No patterns from the seven enumerated kinds are present.

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This is a literature survey with no mathematical modeling, fitted parameters, or theoretical derivations; the contribution rests on the completeness of the external search rather than any internal axioms or invented constructs.

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