Naija NLP

News, conversations, and collaborations around Nigerian Natural Language Processing (NLP) ideas, projects, and directions.

[Chinụalụmọgụ Ezenwa-Ọhaeto @ChinuaEzenwa]

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

[satine @kebxrungi]

“Maybe Jesus will save her from these Buddhists.”

That right there is an Emmy-winning line.

[Àrẹ̀mú Adéọlá Jr. @aremuadeolajr]

🎙️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.

[Jess @JessicaOjo__]

🚀 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

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

Efficiency in African NLP @DeepIndaba. September 8, 2023.

https://t.co/4t47ewk8UW

[Kathleen S. @siminyu_kat]

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!
😄😃

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

Introducing: Ìròyìn, a multipurpose Yorùbá speech corpus. https://t.co/P4VlSV9iH9

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

Watch a talk by David here on his work on under-resourced languages. https://t.co/eqZcalnUqr

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

Congrats to our colleague and restless scholar @davlanade for his successful PhD defence today.

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

More about David here: https://t.co/jnH8hjG75y

[Captain Make A Hoe @KING_TR10]

Congratulations!!! have read many of your papers you deserve this wholeheartedly!

[David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade]

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.

[Cohere @cohere]

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

[TensorFlow Bauchi @TFBauchi]

We are pleased to announce our 2nd edition of ML Olympiad.

Dataset: Hausa Sentiment Analysis
Deadline: March 8, 2023

Register: https://t.co/KwdGMAQq7T

@TensorFlow @NaijaNLP @ZindiAfrica @MasakhaneNLP @DeepIndaba
#MLOlympiad #AppliedML #TensorFlow

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

Apply for @Translation Grants for 2023, which is €100,000 to fund language technology innovators. https://t.co/34ziVz7kNx

[AmericasNLP @AmericasNLP]

📢📢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

[Naija NLP @NaijaNLP]

Important.

[Wuraola Oyewusi @wuraoyewusi]

ChatGPT, explained in Yoruba.(1/2)
https://t.co/NYAzhHiZzC
🎥: @MrBankole
#ChatGPT #yoruba #LLM

[David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 @davlanade]

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