My gratitude to Ifésinàchi Nwàdiké for this generous review of The Naming. Get a copy here: https://t.co/d0hG7W5QJS I hope the review invites you into the collection. The Naming is one of my offerings to readers and to literature. Review: https://t.co/7378DiKBSM
🎙️Exciting Opportunity for Voice-Over Artists! 🎙️
We’re looking for talented individuals with a superb Nigerian English accent 🔊. Demonstrate competence by reading the paragraph in the link and send us your recording to the email below.
🚀 How good are Large Language Models on African Languages?
We compared the performance of different LLMs (mT0, LLaMa 2, GPT-4) on 30 African languages. Our evaluation shows that GPT-4 gave impressive results on simple tasks like classification but struggles on more difficult generative tasks like Question Answering and Machine Translation. Surprisingly, we found mt0-13b-xxl-mt excelling on these difficult tasks, including beating the SOTA on QA.
https://t.co/nxe6HIh0Vd
2 years ago, @alienelf and I embarked upon a journey to create a roadmap for AfricaNLP through engaging a variety of stakeholders already working in the space.
Several iterations later, this journal article is now available!
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Thank you @NaijaNLP
Hallelujah! I'm happy to share that I defended my PhD today on "Natural language processing for African languages". The journey of 8 years is finally over.
A big thank you to my supervisor @dklakow and reviewers: Prof. Alex Fraser & Prof. Benoît Sagot.
We have seen great strides made in Language Models, yet most only support the English Language.
Join @davlanade and @JayAlammar as they explore the challenges faced by African and under-resourced languages as well as key steps to addressing these challenges.
🗓️Sign up for Talking Langauge #6 now
https://t.co/CIZAoqpDca
📢📢The submission deadline for the AmericasNLP workshop is April 15, 2023!
We welcome long papers, short papers, and extended abstract submissions!
✨The workshop will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada✨
More information here: https://t.co/0HsNWFB6wf
I'm so excited about the progress we made on adding Yorùbá to Mozilla common voice. @kolatubosun@aremuadeolajr @tolulope_blog @onomskeke
If you are a native Yorùbá speaker, please help verify the recordings, in one minute, you can verify more than 5.
https://t.co/trVlbh0Ud2