Abigail Oppong

NLP,MT Fairness|Brain&Language Enthusiast|Data Privacy & Governance|

[Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @ChinasaTOkolo]

My latest work, “Examining the Cultural Encoding of Gender Bias in LLMs for Low-Resourced African Languages,” co-authored with @abigaildat and @HellinaNigatu, is now published at the Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing at #ACL2025!

https://t.co/VZCKxIvDZY

[Abigail Oppong @abigaildat]

A challenge to most African Languages as well. Great to see this work.

[Billy Xuanming Zhang @XuanmingZhang07]

🤔As an English second-language learner, I usually have trouble replacing a word, that I frequently used in my essays, with substitutes that show better language proficiency.

✍️Introducing ProLex: a benchmark for language proficiency-oriented lexical substitution 🧵(1/n)

[Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal_cuni]

Congratulations 🥳 to @TomLimi, @tomasmcz, and David Mareček, whose paper on a new efficient method for gender bias mitigation in generative language models got accepted to @iclr_conf. 👍 Check out the pre-print https://t.co/kBm4bLw6NU

[Munmun De Choudhury, PhD @munmun10]

Ever wondered how people with a diagnosis of a serious mental illness draw meaning from AI predictions of their experiences? This #chi2024, @SocwebGT has many narratives to share on patient-centered approaches to digital mental health—more soon, on this paper of ours!

[Sharon Levy @sharonlevy21]

Presenting our work on social biases and the impact of multilingual training at #EMNLP2023 this week! Come check out our poster on Saturday at 11am🎉

[Cogan Lab @CoganLab]

The Cogan Lab is looking for a research technician to analyze data from invasive human neural recordings acquired during verbal working memory tasks. The candidate will work closely with the PI @Cogan_G and Neurosurgery Resident Daniel Sexton. Join us!
https://t.co/fg892p7oun

[Alex Kendall @alexgkendall]

Language is the future for how we interact with robots.

Today @wayve_ai is sharing a first look at LINGO-1, a new vision-language-action AI model. To give you a glimpse of its capabilities, here is a video of me playing with LINGO-1 yesterday morning.

[Ars Electronica @ArsElectronica]

Tonight‘s opening evening of Ars Electronica 2023 introduces FOUNDING LAB, the joint initiative of the Institute of Digital Sciences Austria (IDSA) and Ars Electronica. #arselectronica23 https://t.co/BSBLRjkgUM

[Abigail Oppong @abigaildat]

#Ghana for sure

[International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) @IBROorg]

The IBRO 2027 World Congress will take place in the African region. Which countries do you think should be on our shortlist?

@TheBaleLab @APalacio_s @desiretshala @JLLanciego @rachaeldangare1 @Deleyele @AmadiIhunwo @SONAorg @BrainWellnessI1 @Olamzz1 @TemkouGwladys

[Paul Azunre @pazunre]

Grateful for every chance to meet my guys Atsu and @moorekwesi to discuss the future of AI / NLP in Ghana cc @ghananlp @algorineinc

Who wants to get one of these new t-shirts to support our mission?🧐

@abigaildat designed them 🤩

[Chinna Orish @ChinnaOrish]

Hi ,I am Chinna Orish a lecturer in University of Port Harcourt Nigeria.
My lab studies molecular mechanism of heavy metal- induced neurodegenarative and neurodevelopment diseases and benefical role of natural antidotes.
#BlackInNeuroRollCall
#BlackInNeuroWeek @BlackInNeuro

[Ro'ya CV4Africa @RoyaCV4Africa]

We also have an great list of African speakers working on computer vision research/industry @bonjora @AbigailAnnkah Karim Amer.

[Ro'ya CV4Africa @RoyaCV4Africa]

I am glad to announce that our CV4Africa workshop in Deep Learning Indaba, Accra, Ghana 2023 is accepted. Thanks to the amazing support we received from the DLI community and African researchers we are excited to have it on September 09, 2023 (https://t.co/Jl3e1kF7xr).

[Paul Azunre @pazunre]

I went into Lang Tech & NLP initially 3 yrs ago to build tools for my Dad’s language - Gurene/Frafra - which I never had chance to learn. Our team @algorineinc working w @GureneWikimedia & @GhanaNLP has built the World’s 1st machine translation system for Gurene 😊 @danyorigya

[Abigail Oppong @abigaildat]

Excited about the future of Responsible AI in Africa. Great work @ChinasaTOkolo and team.
#responsibleai #Africa #AIEthics

[Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @ChinasaTOkolo]

Pleased to announce my first publication of the year and my first-ever book chapter:

“Responsible AI in Africa — Challenges and Opportunities”, co-written with Kehinde Aruleba @kehindear and George Obaido @Geobaido!

https://t.co/yD010MwvtP

[Ghana Natural Language Processing (NLP) @GhanaNLP]

Congratulations to our team member @abigaildat for being named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2023 by @WomeninAIEthics 😃 we are so proud of you 😊 https://t.co/RUvc3PpbpB

[nuriaoliver @nuriaoliver]

#Gender #bias in @chatGPT: Sam is a cardiologist -> assumes it's a man. Alex is a nurse --> assumes is a woman #AI4socialgood

[nuriaoliver @nuriaoliver]

Do you use #beautification #filters in your #selfies to look better? At @ELLISAlicante we have studied the impact of these filters and have found that the filters #reduce #diversity and have a #racial #bias
@PieraRiccio presents this work at @NeurIPSConf https://t.co/FKngyPm31S

[Piera Riccio @PieraRiccio]

Yes! Come find me at Poster Session 3 🥰

[AfriCHI Conference @AfriCHI_Conf]

Block your calendar and begin to plan for these dates in 2023 because you can't just afford to miss out! Watch out for more details!