Data Science for Social Impact

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Local Language Natural Language Processing is focused on ways to develop new tools, new data and methodology to improve the state of African languages.

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vukosi updated a dataset about 7 hours ago

dsfsi/govza-sa-cabinet-statements-sentence-aligned

vukosi updated a dataset about 7 hours ago

dsfsi/govza-sa-cabinet-statements-sentence-aligned

vukosi authored a paper 8 months ago

Investigating the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Reflective Assessment Methods through Chain of Thoughts Prompting

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vukosi

updated a dataset about 7 hours ago

dsfsi/govza-sa-cabinet-statements-sentence-aligned

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vukosi

authored 8 papers 8 months ago

Investigating the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Reflective Assessment Methods through Chain of Thoughts Prompting

Paper • 2310.00272 • Published Sep 30, 2023 • 1

Masakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa

Paper • 2003.11529 • Published Mar 13, 2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Paper • 2010.02353 • Published Oct 5, 2020

AI4D -- African Language Program

Paper • 2104.02516 • Published Apr 6, 2021

Cross-lingual transfer of multilingual models on low resource African Languages

Paper • 2409.10965 • Published Sep 17, 2024

From N-grams to Pre-trained Multilingual Models For Language Identification

Paper • 2410.08728 • Published Oct 11, 2024

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Paper • 2502.11926 • Published Feb 17 • 2

The Esethu Framework: Reimagining Sustainable Dataset Governance and Curation for Low-Resource Languages

Paper • 2502.15916 • Published Feb 21

abumafrim

authored a paper 12 months ago

AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages

Paper • 2501.08284 • Published Jan 14 • 7

vukosi

authored a paper over 1 year ago

InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages

Paper • 2408.17024 • Published Aug 30, 2024 • 14

Jenalea

authored a paper over 1 year ago

InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages

Paper • 2408.17024 • Published Aug 30, 2024 • 14

vukosi

authored a paper over 1 year ago

BOTS-LM: Training Large Language Models for Setswana

Paper • 2408.02239 • Published Aug 5, 2024 • 2

OxxoCodes

authored a paper over 1 year ago

BOTS-LM: Training Large Language Models for Setswana

Paper • 2408.02239 • Published Aug 5, 2024 • 2

Masikisiki

authored a paper almost 2 years ago

Investigating the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Reflective Assessment Methods through Chain of Thoughts Prompting

Paper • 2310.00272 • Published Sep 30, 2023 • 1

OxxoCodes

authored a paper almost 2 years ago

Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review

Paper • 2311.13657 • Published Nov 22, 2023 • 1

vukosi

authored 4 papers about 2 years ago

MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Paper • 2210.12391 • Published Oct 22, 2022

Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora

Paper • 2303.03750 • Published Mar 7, 2023

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Paper • 2112.02721 • Published Dec 6, 2021

PuoBERTa: Training and evaluation of a curated language model for Setswana

Paper • 2310.09141 • Published Oct 13, 2023 • 1