A preprint of our SemEval task description paper on semantic relatedness in #NLProc is now available: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.18933… We received 70 final submissions and 38 sys description papers. We summarise the main findings in the 3 main tracks & different languages.

Looking forward to Day 2 of "AI in Action Week" at Northeastern U.! 🙌 Be sure to attend or tune in for talks from members of our team tonight: 🎤 Usama Fayyad: 6-7:20 PM EDT 🎤 Walid Saba: 6-7:20 PM EDT 🎤 Ricardo Baeza-Yates: 7:30-8:50 PM EDT See the schedule: bit.ly/3IZ9BmC

📢 JOBS📢 Come work with us MilaNLP! Looking for 2 POSTDOCS (two-year positions w/extension) to work on personalized and subjective approaches to #NLProc. Deadline: May 30 2024 Start date: from Sep 2024 Link: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?id=601

Ife Adebara Happy B. Kasumba David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 giving the closing remarks of the 5th AfricaNLP Workshop 2024 co-located at ICLR in Vienna, Austria. We appreciate everyone who made this year's workshop a success. See you next year!

Calling all NLP researchers! Join us for the English-to-Lowres Multimodal Translation task at WMT 2024 (EMNLP2024). details: www2.statmt.org/wmt24/multimod… Feel free to share this invitation with other researchers in your network

If you are/were involved in #NLProc projects on low-resource languages (language variants and dialects included), we’d like to hear from you. It takes a few minutes to fill in this survey👇 forms.gle/B3yXApZwZLdvFD… RTs appreciated! 😊 1/

Happy to share that our SemEval shared task @SemRel2024 received a best paper honourable mention award! 😊 Thanks to the great team members.

I'm happy to share that our shared task description paper for SemEval 2024 received the best paper honorable mention award. Kudos to the great teamwork.

I'm excited to announce WAVLab | @CarnegieMellon's XEUS - an SSL speech encoder that covers over 4000+ languages! XEUS is trained on over 1 million hours of speech. It outperforms both MMS 1B and w2v-BERT v2 2.0 on many tasks. We're releasing the code, checkpoints, and our 4000+ lang. data! 🧵

Excited to share our paper on how LLMs represent cultural diversity in low-resource languages! We compared ChatGPT vs. native Hausa speakers on cultural questions. Results show ChatGPT has limited alignment with human responses. Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2406.19504

🚀 Exciting News! We're thrilled to introduce Nigeria's first pretrained "foundational" language model, SabiYarn-125M, with 125 million parameters! 🎉 Try it out here: 🔗 [AI Playground](huggingface.co/spaces/Bearded…) 🔗 [Hugging Face Download](huggingface.co/BeardedMonster…) Pretrained on

New fundraiser to support 25 Nigerian students to attend Deep Learning Indaba in September! 🌍 In 2022 we supported 8 Nigerian students to attend Indaba. This year we are raising $20k to support 25(!) of them to travel to Senegal for likely the most important career event in their lives!

Application deadline extended to 10 September! 🚨 UNITAR and @‌MicrosoftAfrica invite women and youth from 24 African English-speaking countries to join the online digital skills training programme focused on Generative AI. Apply now here: event.unitar.org/full-catalog/b…

I am proud of this work. Thank you for leading it, @shirandudy.

We are glad to announce SemEval shared task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection. New textual datasets will be provided for 33 lgges (with many low-resource lgges)! Task GitHub: github.com/emotion-analys… CodaBench: codabench.org/competitions/3… Tracks👇🏻🧵1/

🏆 Congratulations to Research Scientist @shirandudy (pictured below), Postdoctoral Research Fellow Ibrahim Said Ahmad, PhD and Principal Research Scientist Agata Lapedriza on their Best Paper Award in Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction at #ACII2024! 👏 Read about their research

I am filled with gratitude to Almighty Allah for the opportunity to assume duty as the Honourable Minister of State for Education. I particularly wish to express my heartfelt appreciation to the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of

Delighted to pay a congratulatory call on Hon. State Minister for Education Dr Ahmad Suwaiba Said Ahmad, PhD Federal Ministry of Education 🇬🇧🇳🇬 over 20 years of partnership and looking to the future UK in Nigeria🇬🇧🇳🇬 FCDO-PLANE Nigeria

It is my great pleasure to break ground on the collaborative partnership between the Federal Ministry of Education and Maslaha Homes Ltd under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) land-swap arrangement. The development of critical infrastructure at the National Commission for Mass

I had the honor of representing President Bola Ahmad Tinubu GCFR at the 76th Convocation Ceremony of the University of Ibadan. The President urged Nigerian universities to reevaluate their performance in light of national and global standards. The President announced that the