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	Podcast:		Practical AI
	Episode:		NLP research by & for local communities
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:36:46
	Publish Date:		2023-01-03 20:15:00
	Description:		While at EMNLP 2022, Daniel got a chance to sit down with an amazing group of researchers creating NLP technology that actually works for their local language communities. Just Zwennicker (Universiteit van Amsterdam) discusses his work on a machine translation system for Sranan Tongo, a creole language that is spoken in Suriname. Andiswa Bukula (SADiLaR), Rooweither Mabuya (SADiLaR), and Bonaventure Dossou (Lanfrica, Mila) discuss their work with Masakhane to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. The group emphasized the need for more linguistically diverse NLP systems that work in scenarios of data scarcity, non-Latin scripts, rich morphology, etc. You don’t want to miss this one! Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring Just Zwennicker – LinkedIn Andiswa Bukula – Twitter Rooweither Mabuya – Twitter Bonaventure Dossou – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website Notes and Links EMNLP 2022 papers from the guests: Towards a general purpose machine translation system for Sranantongo MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages Other links relevant to the discussion: Masakhane Lanfrica The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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