A great day for Grassroots AI on the African continent. @MasakhaneNLP@twitter.com wins the 2023 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity https://calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/winners/10147/

@DSFSI_Research@twitter.com at @UPTuks@twitter.com is proud to be a partner to this initiative.

#AfricanMachineLearning
#AfricanNLP
#NLProc

Another great award for the @MasakhaneNLP@twitter.com community #africannlp #nlproc

RT @kolatubosun@twitter.com

Congrats to @MasakhaneNLP@twitter.com.

https://ars.electronica.art/prix/en/digitalhumanity/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kolatubosun/status/1669378640285507584

RT @vukosi@twitter.com

Preprint is out: "Preparing the Vuk’uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African
multilingual corpora"

New parallel aligned datasets

Vuk'uzenzele -> https://github.com/dsfsi/vukuzenzele-nlp
ZA-gov -> https://github.com/dsfsi/gov-za-multilingual

Thanks to collaborators @DSFSI_Research@twitter.com @LelapaAI@twitter.com
#AfricanNLP

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vukosi/status/1633368248015020033

RT @DSFSI_Research@twitter.com

DSFSI @ #ICLR2023 coverage by @uptuks@twitter.com.

UP computer science students feature at first Africa-hosted machine learning conference https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_3152042-up-computer-science-students-feature-at-first-africa-hosted-machine-learning-conference

@iclr_conf@twitter.com @siminyu_kat@twitter.com @vukosi@twitter.com #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP #NLProc

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DSFSI_Research/status/1661019520704872451

Why our Languages and #AfricanNLP matters.

RT @kolatubosun@twitter.com

Emails about http://Yorubaname.com that make me happy.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kolatubosun/status/1659552476964478978

Some of the posters at the #AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023

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#AfricanNLP

Our poster at the AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023. Rozina Myoya, from our lab @DSFSI_Research , will be at the poster session.

#AfricanNLP
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AI tools open up a world of African languages - African Business https://african.business/2023/03/technology-information/ai-tools-open-up-a-world-of-african-languages #WhyWeFight #NLProc #AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning

First spinoff of the below work is now available, focus on Tshivenda NER.

MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda <> https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03952

A collaboration to be presented at AfricaNLP workshop at @iclr_conf 2023.

@rendx @DSFSI_Research #AfricanNLP
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Preprint is out: "Preparing the Vuk’uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African
multilingual corpora"

New parallel aligned datasets

Vuk'uzenzele -> htt…
https://twitter.com/vukosi/status/1633368248015020033

The above work by Ishe and Richard led to these outputs

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RT @vukosi
Preprint is out: "Preparing the Vuk’uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African
multilingual corpora"

New parallel aligned datasets

Vuk'uzenzele -> https://github.com/dsfsi/vukuzenzele-nlp
ZA-gov -> https://github.com/dsfsi/gov-za-multilingual

Thanks to collaborators @DSFSI_Research @LelapaAI
#AfricanNLP
https://twitter.com/vukosi/status/1633368248015020033

In Our second post Summer Internship blog post. Richard Lastrucci and Isheanesu Dzingirai detail their @DSFSI_Research Summer Research Experience <> From Data Engineering to Natural Language Corpora https://dsfsi.github.io/blog/Richard-Ishe-internship/
#NVIDIAGrant #AfricanNLP
@NVIDIAAIDev @UPTuks
@TensorFlow

Thrilled to share: I am be part of the 2023 cohort of Young Global Leaders. Eager to collaborate with & gain insights from fellow members of the community, as well and advocate for the advancement of #AfricanMachineLearning & #AfricanNLP
#YGL23
@UPTuks @LelapaAI
@DSFSI_Research
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We are delighted to unveil the #YGL Class of 2023. From courageous journalists to savvy entrepreneurs, this year's class is packed with brilli…
https://twitter.com/YGLvoices/status/1635552264977801217

We will soon be announcing an application process to fund up to 20 interdisciplinary scholars, with special focus on early career and emerging scholars, to join us at the University of Pretoria in July 2024.

#AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning #GenerativeAI

Preprint is out: "Preparing the Vuk’uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African
multilingual corpora"

New parallel aligned datasets

Vuk'uzenzele -> https://github.com/dsfsi/vukuzenzele-nlp
ZA-gov -> https://github.com/dsfsi/gov-za-multilingual

Thanks to collaborators @DSFSI_Research @LelapaAI
#AfricanNLP

Our first post Summer Internship blog post. Rozina Myoya & Fiskani Banda detail their @DSFSI_Research Summer Research Experience <> Fine-tuning Multilingual Pre-trained African Language Models https://dsfsi.github.io/blog/Fiskani-Rozina-internship/
#NVIDIAGrant #AfricanNLP
@NVIDIAAIDev @UPTuks
@TensorFlow

Support @MasakhaneNLP financially through - Open Collective. Donate, Support! #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNlp https://opencollective.com/masakhane#category-CONNECT

#AfricanNLP
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Congratulations to the first-place Machine Translation winners: the Alpha Team! We are thrilled to have collaborated with participants worldwide to help create language models that will benefit Bambara speakers. #Bambara #MachineTranslation #OrangeAfrica #NLP
https://twitter.com/Orange_SV/status/1627815458354126855

RT @vukosi
CEO @tamati_biskit and COO @alienelf of @LelapaAI on @SABCNews Morning Live.

LelapaAI launches app to enrich under-represented African languages: Pelonomi Moiloa & Jade Abbott - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpzCGv3dr0

Find out more https://lelapa.ai/

##AfricanNLP
#AfricanMachineLearning

CEO @tamati_biskit and COO @alienelf of @LelapaAI on @SABCNews Morning Live.

LelapaAI launches app to enrich under-represented African languages: Pelonomi Moiloa & Jade Abbott - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIpzCGv3dr0

Find out more https://lelapa.ai/

##AfricanNLP
#AfricanMachineLearning

Comparing Africa-centric Models to OpenAI's GPT3.5 - Lelapa https://lelapa.ai/comparing-africa-centric-models-to-openais-gpt3-5-2/

#LLM #LanguageModels #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP