AI4D Africa Grant Recipients
April 12, 2021 10:14 am Leave your thoughtsSince the launch of the AI4D Africa program, we have run a total six calls for funding (with more still in the pipeline). The... 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
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
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
Announcing the AI4D Africa Innovation 2019 Winners
August 25, 2019 3:46 pm 2 CommentsThe AI for Development (AI4D) Initiative is pleased to announce the winners of the AI4D-Africa Innovation Call for Proposals 2019.... View Article
UNESCO’s Dorothy Gordon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Development
July 25, 2019 4:59 pm Leave your thoughtsIDRC’s President Jean Lebel invited Dorothy Gordon, the Chair of Information for All at UNESCO, to Montréal, where she shared... View Article
AI4D Africa Innovation Call for Proposals – July 18th, 2019
June 12, 2019 2:43 pm 2 CommentsSubmit Your Proposal Today This Call for Proposals invites individuals, grassroots organizations, initiatives, academic, and civil society institutions to submit... View Article