HC²LFN: Hierarchical Contrastive Cross-Lingual Fusion Network for Machine Translation Detection in African Languages
# AfricaNLP2026_HCCLFN
HC²LFN: Hierarchical Contrastive Cross-Lingual Fusion Network for Machine Translation Detection in African Languages
**Dataset Description**
**Languages:** 20 african languages: NigerCongo (Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Zulu, Xhosa,Igbo, Shona, Kinyarwanda, Chichewa, Sesotho,
Setswana, Wolof, Fon, Ewe, Akan, Twi) and AfroAsiatic (Amharic, Somali, Oromo, Tigrinya) families.
**Sources:** FLORES+ devtest (1,012 sentences/language).
**MT Systems:** Google Translate, NLLB-200,
mBART-50, M2M-100, synthetic translations of
GPT-4/Claude/Gemini.
**Statistics:** 9645 samples of which 4000 were
human and 5645 machine. 68% of this data was
used for training, 12% validation and 20% for testing.