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Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning of XLM-R for Sentiment Analysis in
Hausa-English Code-Switched Dialogues

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Associated publication (please cite):
    Osei Wusu Brempong Jnr, Junaid Hussain Muzamal, and Liu Zhaobin. 2026.
    "Cross-Lingual Fine-Tuning of XLM-R for Sentiment Analysis in
     Hausa-English Code-Switched Dialogues." ACM Transactions on Asian and
     Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP).
    https://doi.org/10.1145/3830015

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