📢 CALL FOR MENTORS 📢 For the 4th AfricaNLP workshop co-located with ICLR 2023 in Rwanda, we are seeking mentors for our newcomers in the NLP research areas on both technical aspects (e.g training a model) and academic paper writing.

I'm finally over my jetlag and I can speak a little bit about our experiences last week in Panama and Costa Rica as part of RightsCon. I want to caveat all this by saying I don't work for Access Now although I do serve on the board. Everything I'm saying here is on my own behalf.

I'm happy to share the electronic copy of my PhD thesis "Natural language processing for African languages" publikationen.sulb.uni-saarland.de/handle/20.500.… . Happy reading especially if you are new to AfricaNLP. A big thank you to my supervisor Dietrich Klakow & the examination committee members:

A * sneak peek * at my favorite feature in the upcoming revamp of Zeno 𝙕𝙚𝙣𝙤 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 Author reports with interactive charts grounded directly in your data and tell stories of how AI systems behave. Example report on LLMs and translation: hub.zenoml.com/report/cabrera…

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University University investigate the effectiveness of #LLMs across 204 languages 🌐🌏 and demonstrate that LLMs fall short in output for low-resource languages. Nathaniel R. Robinson Perez Ogayo Graham Neubig #LLM #ChatGPT #MT #translation #xl8 slator.com/how-effective-…

📣CALL FOR PAPER📣 The 5th AfricaNLP workshop will be co-located with ICLR 2024 in Vienna, Austria. We are happy to receive your submissions by the 9th February 2024 AoE deadline. The theme for the 2024 workshop is: Adaptation of Generative AI for African languages.

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1/3 I'm thrilled to announce my book detailing my journey from Benin to impactful achievements in AI, with a special focus on healthcare and language technologies for underrepresented African languages. It’s already available for preorder a.co/d/iLQE1AC

The aggravated financial crimes of KK Govt are also in the Appropriation Bill, 2024 Why National Intelligence Service (NSIS) should be getting more than double the Judiciary's budget (46B vs 22B) is just irrational. We are building a constitutional not a security state.

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Are you able to retweet this #RejectFinanceBill2024

What annoyed Kenyans. An MP loots then arrogantly shows you such levels of waste. #RejectFinanceBill2024

STATEMENT: As a member of the Police Reforms Working Group - Kenya, ICJ Kenya would like to say that, throughout the day, we have reliably documented the following. At least five people have been shot dead, including one medical officer while treating the injured. Thirty-one

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My president wants me to go pick cotton in Poland while his daughter is an ambassador in Europe??? #RejectFinanceBill2024

We elected a narcissist!! Mnaskia upuzi anasema? Zakayo bado hajashuka!!!

LSK sues Defence CS Aden Duale and National Assembly over deployment of KDF following anti-Finance Bill protests; urges court to suspend decision, pending hearing and determination.

LSK President Faith Odhiambo to IG Japhet Koome: Any person held must be released effective immediately. Resign if you are not in control of the NPS and are incapable of carrying out your mandate #JKLive Jeff Koinange, MBS

Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA mila.quebec/en/prospective… Are you interested in multilingual NLP? I would encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 1