Tejumade Afonja from AI Saturdays Lagos on AI and the importance of local communities
February 12, 2021 12:08 pm Leave your thoughtsWhat are you working on at the moment? My name is Tejumade Afonja and I am from Nigeria. I work... View Article
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Semantic Enrichment Of Nigerian Pidgin English For Contextual Sentiment Classification – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThis is a presentation of the paper authored by Olubayo Adekanmbi, Wuraola Fisayo Oyewusi and Olalekan Akinsande. When Nigerians text,... View Article
Low Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Benchmark for Five African Languages – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are over 7000 languages and language varieties in the world. Despite the progress in Neural Machine Translation, there still... View Article
Evaluating Amharic Machine Translation – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:55 pm Leave your thoughtsMachine Translation (MT) is the study of software that translates text or speech from one language to another. It has... View Article
Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:45 pm 1 CommentThe deaf population face many challenges in society. Apart from being unable to communicate with most people, they are often... View Article
A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsIn this talk, researcher Denis Pastory Rubanga presents on a mini project that seeks to use Computer Vision to test... View Article
Optimal transformer depth for low-resource language translation – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsIn his presentation, Elan says that out of the box transformer hyper-parameter configurations are ill-suited for low resource tasks. This... View Article
Join AI4D, Mozilla, and GIZ’s FAIR Forward initiative for a webinar with the Lacuna Fund Secretariat
July 22, 2020 7:49 am Leave your thoughtsPlease join AI4D Africa, Mozilla, and GIZ’s FAIR Forward initiative for a webinar with the Lacuna Fund Secretariat and partners... View Article
Towards Neural Machine Translation for Edoid Languages – ICLR 2020
July 6, 2020 8:33 am Leave your thoughtsEdoid languages are approximately 30 languages spoken by 5 Million speakers in the south of Nigeria. In his presentation, Iroro... View Article
Masakhane Machine Translation for Africa – ICLR 2020
July 6, 2020 8:26 am Leave your thoughtsIn this talk, Jade Abbott introduces Masakhane, a grassroots NLP community in Africa, by Africans. In spite of the fact... View Article
Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation by Pivoting English Data and Self – Training – ICLR 2020
July 6, 2020 8:26 am Leave your thoughtsPidgin is a language that is widely spoken in West Africa. According to Ernie (the presenter) It is used by... View Article
New podcast by Wale Akinfaderin on AI used to make parliamentary documents more available to average Nigerians
June 26, 2020 3:07 pm Leave your thoughtsWale Akinfaderin, one of our AI4D grantees has delivered a podcast for an episode of “I Am Change” podcast series... View Article