Kathleen S.
@siminyu_kat
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Tweeting: AI, Language, Education, Africa Building: Kiswahili voice tools @DAIRInstitute, AI communities @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP, tech companies @AtlanticaVC
Nairobi, Kenya
Joined August 2010
I want to be understood when I speak. That is what language gives the dominant. #QuoteMe.
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RT @shakir_za: We have been busy this month @FAccTConference. We’ve released the Call for Papers - consider submitting your best work in fa….
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RT @IndabaXKenya: State of NLP in Kenya: A survey. @ankahira @siminyu_kat @BensonNdunge @DeepIndaba @indabaxug @gh….
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RT @davlanade: Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at.@Mila_Quebec. https://t.c….
mila.quebec
Each student at Mila is supervised by one of our affiliated professors. Applicants are selected through the supervision request process.
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RT @davlanade: 3 papers accepted at #EMNLP2024 . 1) YORÙLECT (Yoruba dialects) led by @orevaahia @aremuadeolajr .
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Recent advancements in massively multilingual machine translation systems have significantly enhanced translation accuracy; however, even the best performing systems still generate hallucinations,...
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RT @natschluter: I’m looking for great recent/almost MSc graduates in NLP/Speech/Theoretical Deep Learning, who are interested in doing up….
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RT @DSFSI_Research: We are pleased to announce that Fiskani Banda, a graduate from the Data Science for Social Impact research group at the….
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RT @Zebra_023: My #Mturk account was suspended because of apparent issues with my @amazonpay account, which has been fine since 2015. How c….
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RT @Farida_N: There are 60 million Hausa in Nigeria and 14 million in Niger. Some are labeled Anglophones, while others are called Francoph….
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RT @LelapaAI: We're excited to launch Inkuba LM 4.0B, the first small language model for IsiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and IsiXhosa. Ink….
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RT @chao_mbogho: Hello! 👋. I'd like to share a work update I am proud of & recognize the 8 universities I've supported over the last year i….
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RT @DeepIndaba: 🪘DLI 2024 Workshops Announcement🪘.We are proud to present the list of our full-day workshops ! This year's line-up of works….
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RT @vukosi: #ICML2024 has kicked off in Vienna, Austria. I will be giving my invited talk tomorrow at 930 AM. I will touch on @DSFSI_Rese….
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RT @timnitGebru: Well, its official. I have now signed up to write a WHOLE BOOK 😲. I am equal parts excited and terrified. But I couldn't a….
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RT @Abebab: as part of this year's African Computer Vision Summer School in Nairobi, I run a 3hr workshop this morning on how CV research p….
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