Dataset Creation and Baseline Models for Sexism Detection in Hausa

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27038v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:57:35 GMT
• Title: Dataset Creation and Baseline Models for Sexism Detection in Hausa
• Authors: Fatima Adam Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Muhammad Hassan, Isa Inuwa-Dutse,
• Abstract summary: This study introduces the first Hausa sexism detection dataset, developed through community engagement, qualitative coding, and data augmentation.<n>For cultural nuances and linguistic representation, we conducted a two-stage user study involving native speakers to explore how sexism is defined and articulated in everyday discourse.<n>Our findings highlight challenges in capturing cultural nuance, particularly with clarification-seeking and idiomatic expressions, and reveal a tendency for many false positives in such cases.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sexism reinforces gender inequality and social exclusion by perpetuating stereotypes, bias, and discriminatory norms. Noting how online platforms enable various forms of sexism to thrive, there is a growing need for effective sexism detection and mitigation strategies. While computational approaches to sexism detection are widespread in high-resource languages, progress remains limited in low-resource languages where limited linguistic resources and cultural differences affect how sexism is expressed and perceived. This study introduces the first Hausa sexism detection dataset, developed through community engagement, qualitative coding, and data augmentation. For cultural nuances and linguistic representation, we conducted a two-stage user study (n=66) involving native speakers to explore how sexism is defined and articulated in everyday discourse. We further experiment with both traditional machine learning classifiers and pre-trained multilingual language models and evaluating the effectiveness few-shot learning in detecting sexism in Hausa. Our findings highlight challenges in capturing cultural nuance, particularly with clarification-seeking and idiomatic expressions, and reveal a tendency for many false positives in such cases.

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