How African NLP Experts Are Navigating the Challenges of Copyright, Innovation, and Access - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Collaboratuve piece (led by Dr. Chijioke Okorie) between Data Science Law Lab and Data Science for Social Impact

University of Pretoria
carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/30/how…

New paper from Reka 🔥 (yes an actual paper).

This time we're releasing part of our internal evals which we call Vibe-Eval 😃 This comprises of a hard set which imo is pretty challenging for frontier models today.

The fun part here is that we constructed it by trying to…

🚨 We are delighted to have Edoardo Ponti from EdinburghNLP at UCL Computer Science for our **hybrid** UCL NLP Meetup on *May 30th 5:30 PM BST*

Talk 'Efficiency as an Inductive Bias for Language Models' 💫

Please use the online or in-person links here accordingly meetup.com/ucl-natural-la…

Exciting as we made history with the first-ever AI for beginners in Hausa language.

The 40 short animated videos use relatable examples to demystify the complex concepts of Artificial Intelligence in the mother tongue of over 88m people.

Thanks to Senator Uba Sani & Google in Africa

Llama-3 for instruction-based text embeddings is here 💥

The AfricaNLP workshop co-located at the #ICLR2024 will be held on the 11th of May 2024 in Austria and we are excited to announce our guest speakers and panelist.

Graham Neubig is an associate professor at the LTI of Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on NLP,

🎙️ Join Israel for a presentation on : 'Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets' arxiv.org/abs/2402.08015

📅 Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
⏰ Time: 4 PM UTC

🔗 Zoom Link: Available on Slack

Be there!🚀

#Masakhane #NLP

How can we make sure that AI is developed and used in a way that benefits everyone, everywhere?
Mila members Catherine Régis, Golnoosh Farnadi and David Ifeoluwa Adelani shared ideas in a panel at #WSAIAM24 in Montreal.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 Catherine Régis Golnoosh Farnadi

🚨Job Announcement🚨
I'm looking for a PhD student w/ an interest in low-resource #NLProc and #NLProc for medical applications to join my group (NALA) at JGU (@uni_mainz), Germany.
More details here: t.ly/2dJP3
Application deadline: 05/15/24
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Better Synthetic Data by Retrieving and Transforming Existing Datasets

repo: github.com/neulab/prompt2…
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2404.14361

The #AfricaNLP Workshop co-located at #ICLR2024 is happy to announce the list of accepted papers for this year’s workshop. We are proud as we continue to create a platform to encourage high-quality peer-reviewed publications of NLP researches in African languages.

Really excited about this talk series — which will include panels on grad school, advice on careers on research and tips on how to iterate on research ideas. 🔥🎉

Thank you to Madeline Smith who has championed putting this together.