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It was wonderful seeing everyone at the 2024 Princeton Alumni for Africa reunion. Congratulations to this year's graduates!🎉 AWI wishes you the best of luck on your journey ahead and looks forward to hearing about your achievements. Subscribe to our mailing list. Best!

This is a great collaboration with many authors Jess Israel Abebe | እስራኤል አበበ , Jesujoba Alabi Xuanli He Ochieng Millicent Sara Hooker Andie Bukula Happy B. Kasumba Blessing Sibanda MUKIIBI JONATHAN Salomon Kabongo Foutse yuehgoh Rooweither Mabuya Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD Salomey Osei sokhar samb

We're super excited for the upcoming DARIAH-EU | @dariaheu.bsky.social Annual Event! If you'll be there, don't miss CDH Faculty Director Meredith Martin's keynote, "Worked Up About Data," on Wednesday, 6/19. 📈 cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/06…

I will be speaking at Princeton on the 19th of September -> A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/09…

We are excited to welcome Prof. Vukosi, our first speaker in the upcoming African Languages in the Age of AI speaker series this Fall2024 at Princeton.

Join us on 9/19 at 4:30 pm for a talk by Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 (University of Pretoria), "A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once", launching the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series. Info & RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/09… Princeton University

Back from a visit to NJ/NYC, after speaking Princeton University. Also got to attend Lacuna Fund SteerCo meeting and Partnership on AI Policy Forum. Read more here linkedin.com/posts/vukosima…

We are thrilled to continue the “African Languages in the Age of AI” series this week with Ernest Mwebaze (SunbirdAI) who will give a talk on “End-to-End African Language Technology”. Please join us Thursday, Oct 24, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at Friend Center 006. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/10…

Happening TODAY, in-person and streaming!

Join us for the final African Languages in the Age of AI series lecture this Friday, 11/22 at Princeton University with Graham Neubig (Carnegie Mellon University): "Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures." More info/RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/11…

We're thrilled to share the recording of Ernest Mwebaze's talk, "End-to-End African Language Technology" from our African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series! Watch on our website here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/10… @princeton

As AI transforms the digital world, millions on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built large language models that drive services like ChatGPT. A Princeton postdoc is focused on how to change that. bit.ly/4aUVonR

CDH Postdoc Happy B. Kasumba on the @princeton Homepage! 📰 His Freshman Seminar "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages" focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs & access to the benefits of AI. bit.ly/4aUVonR

There are over 7,000 languages in the world today and around 2,000 of these are spoken on the African continent. Yet not more than 20 African languages are currently represented in commercial LLMs. #PrincetonU postdoc Happy B. Kasumba and a new course he devised is focused on how

If you are have submitted a paper to ARR/ACL evaluating on African languages and not happy with the meta reviews or unsure if it will get into ACL 2025 You can consider submitting your paper and the reviews to our AfricaNLP workshop sites.google.com/view/africanlp…

Check out our recent work on Lugha-Llama introducing three state-of-the-art Africa-centric language models. If your at NAACL next week let’s connect.

Excited to be attending #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque this week! We'll be presenting 4 papers covering: - African languages Evaluation (IrokoBench and AfriHate), - a multilingual & multicultural VQA dataset (WorldCuisines), and - LLM eval. on Naija (w/ J.'sasi) See 👇

Grateful to have contributed to this amazing work which received the Outstanding Paper Award @NAACL2015. Congratulations to all the outstanding authors who contributed.

That's a wrap on the PIIRS Global Seminar in Kenya! Students discovered how to teach a computer to understand African languages & explored the current landscape of language technologies in Africa. Thanks to Happy B. Kasumba for this pic from the final poster session!