"African Languages in the Age of AI" returns! David Ifeoluwa Adelani (McGill, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, CIFAR) will describe different approaches to scaling evaluation to several languages. Join us on Oct 30! Introduction by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social.
We welcomed 2 new associate research scholars this fall 🥳
Liam Fowl and @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social will be supporting the ongoing research at Princeton Language and Intelligence.
Read more: ai.princeton.edu/news/2025/ai...
If you’re an incoming Princeton 🐯 this fall, consider joining FRS159 - a unique chance to dive into technology, culture and African Languages. More about the course in the post below.
students and instructors pose together with three scientific posters
That's a wrap on the @princetonpiirs.bsky.social Global Seminar in Kenya! Students discovered how to teach a computer to understand African languages & explored the current landscape of language technologies in Africa.
Thanks to @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social for this pic from the final poster session!
Check out our recent work on Lugha-Llama introducing three state-of-the-art Africa-centric language models.
If your at NAACL next week let’s connect.
A photo of an academic (Meredith Martin) in profile view reading from her book Poetry's Data, with a slide projected image behind her of a page of the book "Caps for Sale," which is is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W. R. Scott in 1940.
So lovely to chat about Poetry's Data with friends at Johns Hopkins! And, @feinsod.bsky.social snapped this lovely picture of me which I'll share because I love the book slide (and yes I wear too many hats). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The 6th AfricaNLP Workshop on “Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" will be co-located with ACL’25 in Vienna.
Submission deadline: March 7.
- Extended Abstracts: Up to 2 pages
- Full Papers: Up to 8 pages
- Previously submitted ARR papers are welcome
sites.google.com/view/african...
🤔 Ever wondered how prevalent some type of web content is during LM pre-training?
In our new paper, we propose WebOrganizer which *constructs domains* based on the topic and format of CommonCrawl web pages 🌐
Key takeaway: domains help us curate better pre-training data! 🧵/N
📰 Now on the #Princeton Homepage! "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages," a new Freshman Seminar taught by CDH/PAHC Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and access to the benefits of AI.
A man presenting a lecture at the front of a classroom with a raised hand and a grin.
A man presenting a lecture at the front of a classroom with a slide projected on the screen that states "How well do these models work in practice?" The viewpoint is from the back of the room, peering through an opening between people in the audience.
We're thrilled to share the recording of Ernest Mwebaze's talk, "End-to-End African Language Technology" from our African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series! Watch on our website here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
Promotional poster for the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series, featuring an event on Friday, November 22 with Professor Graham Neubig discussing 'AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures'. Hosted by the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. Includes details about the time, location, RSVP QR codes, and sponsor logos.
Portrait of a smiling person with short hair wearing a checkered shirt against a white background. The person in the image is Graham Neubig who will be presenting the lecture for this event.
Join us for the final African Languages in the Age of AI series lecture this Friday, 11/22, with #GrahamNeubig (Carnegie Mellon): "Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures." More info/RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
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We are thrilled to continue the “African Languages in the Age of AI” series this week with Ernest Mwebaze (Sunbird AI, Kampala, Uganda) who will give a talk on “End-to-End African Language Technology”. Please join us Thursday, Oct 24, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at Friend Center 006.
The CfP for the 5th Africa Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP2024) is out.
sites.google.com/view/african...
