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
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
Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Facilitating the Exploitation of Local Ethnopharmacological Knowledge
April 20, 2020 7:20 am Leave your thoughtsContext In many African countries such as Burkina Faso, people still rely quite often on traditional medicine for both common... View Article