6th AfricaNLP Workshop @aclmeeting #ACL2025NLP #ACL2025 @masakhane Opening remark by @Shmuhammadd

Half a decade ago, finding a public Igbo speech-text dataset was impossible, and resources for Yoruba and Hausa were relatively few. Today, we’re changing that narrative! We proudly present the largest African speech dataset for Nigerian languages, encompassing 1,800 hours and

Help us reach our goal to send Masakhane community members to the Deep Learning Indaba taking place in Septermber! We're aiming to secure flights and lodging by August 20th. Share widely 📷 https://t.co/CUfNDt5yNM Reach out to @Onyothi @ChrisEmezue

Glad to share that our paper got accepted to #LREC2024 Come listen to our oral presentation on May 23rd Read: https://t.co/0CIetXmYYP With @ChrisEmezue @igezeani @perayson @ijemmaohno

🌱 We’re very excited that our work "Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning" was also accepted! Congrats to authors @singhshiviii, @freddiev4, @mrdanieldsouza, @tellarin, @freakynut, @weiyinko_ml, @krypticmouse, @rv__init__, @DeividasMat,

An intentionally, fully multilingual first research initiative by @CohereForAI . So happy and proud to have been part of this year-long project. The papers: https://t.co/VBqRf5iByb https://t.co/L38kLjtcxR #nolanguageleftbehind

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models. https://t.co/0WsC2i9C8a

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Come join us on this open-source journey of contributing to a large-scale multilingual dataset where 101 languages across the world are well-represented, If you're interested in contributing to the Igbo language join here https://t.co/eQBKQsJd6d or DM

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🎉 Thrilled to announce the OSS release of LIDA - a lib for automated visualization with #llms 🛠️ API for #datavisualization generation, eval, editing, recommendation 🔄 Supports multiple LLM providers (@openai, @cohere, PaLM, @huggingface) 🌟 Great UI ➡️ https://t.co/mz13eHSCA3

📣Calling on the African NLP community and language enthusiasts! 🌍 Please share widely and help us make sure Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans & Malagasy are included in the development of language AI. Be in touch if interested in championing contributions to Aya. https://t.co/tj6WAAZXZD

Next week join the Aya African Language Challenge! 🌍🚀🔥 Let's push the boundaries and make African languages shine in the development of language AI. Join our server to get in on the fun: https://t.co/GBCsw919cs

Our European Sprint for the Aya project is this weekend, June 17-18.🌍Join us to help ensure every European language is included in the development of language AI! More info here: https://t.co/x3g0FyGAjA Register to participate here:

Introducing Aya: An Open Science Initiative to Accelerate Multilingual AI Progress https://t.co/qHQtBTUAFZ 🧵 [1/11]

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