With overwhelming excitement that we can finally share with you "Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages" to be published at ✨Findings of @emnlp2020 ✨💕🌍💪🏾 Preprint: https://t.co/r01i7C9jFs /1

🎙️@NairaAbdou, Lead Data Scientist at ToumAI Analytics, presents "Multilingual Speech Recognition Initiative for African Languages" with a team of 5 authors. 📅Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025 ⏰4 PM UTC Meeting Link shared on Slack #AfricanAI

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

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 @NdapewaOnyothi @ChrisEmezue

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1/3 We are thrilled to announce the Lacuna Fund Masakhane Mentorship Program 2024! @LacunaFund is partnering with Masakhane to connect researchers with mentors. 🤩🌸💚 #Masakhane #LacunaFund

I'm very happy to share our new benchmark, IrokoBench--a human translated benchmark dataset for 16 African languages covering: - NLI (AfriXNLI) - Maths reasoning (AfriMGSM) - Multi-choice QA (AfriMMLU) https://t.co/wbk4L5cGzs Project funded by @LacunaFund with @MasakhaneNLP

🎙️ Osvaldo Quinjica, presents "ANGOFA: Leveraging OFA Embedding Initialization and Synthetic Data for Angolan Language Model" https://t.co/zdVnDnkloq 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 ⏰ Time: 4 PM UTC Zoom Link: Available to members on Slack See you there! 🚀 #AI #AfricanNLP

🎙️ Millicent Ochieng, a leading female researcher from Microsoft, presents "MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI" 📅Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 ⏰Time: 4 PM UTC See you there!🚀 #AI #WomenInTech #AfricanNLP

Special thanks to our speakers @gneubig @IfeAdebara @Oladipo_AF @_josh_meyer_ @tamati_biskit and, @iamsikasote for gracing our workshop both in-person and virtual. To the organising committee, thank you. See you all at the 6th AfricaNLP Workshop next year!!!

We deeply appreciate the sponsors of the 5th AfricaNLP Workshop for their support. We are grateful and happy to have you with us @LelapaAI @GoogleDeepMind

@IfeAdebara @happybuzaaba1 @davlanade giving the closing remarks of the 5th AfricaNLP Workshop 2024 co-located at ICLR in Vienna, Austria. We appreciate everyone who made this year's workshop a success. See you next year!

@IfeAdebara Presentation of Best Papers Award to the authors of the selected papers anchored by @happybuzaaba1

"Scaling multilingual LMs to 500 African languages" is currently being delivered by @IfeAdebara. "Africans who use technology are forced to use it in a language that are not indigenous to them." ~ @IfeAdebara

Our next talk is on the topic "Building Language Models for African languages using small quality data" by Akintunde from @UWaterloo "some of the major problem we have is data. There are not as many dataset for African languages compared to English for example" ~ @Oladipo_AF

"Geo-parsing and Geo-Visualization of Road Traffic Crash Incident Locations from Print Media for Emergency Response and Planning" was presented as a spotlight talk by Patricia Idakwo.

"Africa-centric self-supervised pretraining for multilingual speech representation in a sub-saharan context", a spotlight presentation by Antoine Caubrière

Prof. @gneubig, associate professor at @LTIatCMU is giving our afternoon session keynote. Prof. Neubig keynote is on "LLMs and African Languages".

Prof. @gneubig, associate professor at @LTIatCMU is giving our afternoon session keynote. Prof. Neubig keynote is on "LLMs and African Languages".

We are having our virtual breakout rooms where authors are presenting their research findings. The rooms include: Adaptation of LLMs on African Languages, Sentiment Analysis & HS, NLP Applications, Machine Translation, Text Generation and, Speech & Multimodality.