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AfroXLMR (Afrikaans included)

Afrikaans(afr)NERXLM-RoBERTa LargeClassification, Sentiment / Encoder

Model Info

Language

Afrikaans (afr)

Architecture

Classification, Sentiment / Encoder

Institution

Jesujoba Alabi, David Adelani et al.

Last Updated

12 May 2026

Intended Use Cases

NER, Classification on Afrikaans

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/Davlan/afro-xlmr-large

Fetch Timestamp

12 May 2026

Submitter

Jesujoba Alabi, David Adelani et al.

Full Record

20 of 25 fields stated

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Registry columns (17/18)

iso code: afr
Model Name: AfroXLMR (Afrikaans included)
Where is it hosted: HuggingFace
Link: https://huggingface.co/Davlan/afro-xlmr-large
Year: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Jesujoba Alabi, David Adelani et al.
Paper Reference: Alabi et al., COLING 2022
NLP Task: NER
Architecture: Classification, Sentiment / Encoder
Base Model: XLM-RoBERTa Large
Fine-tuned?: Yes
License: CC-BY
Open Access: Open
Has Model Card: Yes
SOTA Tasks: NER, Classification on Afrikaans
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-12
Comment: Covers 20 African langs; Afrikaans from NCHLT data

Readiness (LRS) (3/7)

model id: afroxlmr-afrikaans-included-afr
Model Type: LLM
Training Data Sources: Multilingual African text (incl. Afrikaans)
Benchmark Used: Not stated
Benchmark Score: Not stated
Benchmark Date: Not stated
Status: Not stated

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5

Data Coverage100%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks100%

Documentation80%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

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