balthasMasakhane African Languages Hub launched new call to address the underrepresentation of African languages in AI. Its about funding, visibility, and institutional support. Non-profits, social enterprises, tech innovators & research institutions based in or have a presence in Africa can apply. Main themes: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR); Benchmarking "In the Wild"; and Culturally Relevant Multimodal Datasets. Deadline: Jan 25 #AfricanNLP #MasakhaneHub #InclusiveAI https://www.masakhane.io/masakhane-african-languages-hub/grants
Vukosi MarivateInkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages s #InkubaLM @LelapaAI https://medium.com/@lelapa_ai/inkubalm-a-small-language-model-for-low-resource-african-languages-dc9793842dec #AfricanLLM #AfricanNLP
Local AI model is melting pot for African languages s #InkubaLM @LelapaAI https://www.itweb.co.za/article/local-ai-model-is-melting-pot-for-african-languages/j5alr7QABQo7pYQk #AfricanLLM #AfricanNLP
Supremely honoured to be featured by my PhD Alma Mater @RutgersU -> Ways Rutgers Is Shaping the AI Revolution https://www.rutgers.edu/news/ways-rutgers-shaping-ai-revolution #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP
Stéphane GhozziTwo data scientist positions in Berlin!
Come and work at the Robert Koch Institute in collaboration with the World Health Organization Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The project aims at improving the relevance of online media monitoring for public health intelligence through NLP and MLOps. 1/2
#jobs #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP #AIForGood #DataScience #Engineering #MachineLearning #NLP #OpenSource #OSS #Programming #PyLadies #Python #RLadies #RSE #RStats #WomenInSTEM
Tech jobs at the World Health Organization in Berlin, Germany. See thread above. 6/6
#jobs #GetFediHired #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP #AIForGood #DataScience #Engineering #MachineLearning #NLP #OpenSource #OSS #Programming #PyLadies #Python #RLadies #RSE #RStats #WomenInSTEM
After many years as organiser for #TEDxRutgers, finally a speaker for @TEDxPretoria
Let's go!!!!
A great day for Grassroots AI on the African continent. @[email protected] wins the 2023 Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity https://calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/winners/10147/
@[email protected] at @[email protected] is proud to be a partner to this initiative.
Some of the posters at the #AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023
Our poster at the AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023. Rozina Myoya, from our lab @DSFSI_Research , will be at the poster session.
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