🗣️ “There are a billion and half people speaking in Africa and they have… | CLEAR Global 🗣️ “There are a billion and half people speaking in Africa and they have almost nothing for their own languages, although those are the languages they use every day.” Martin Benjamin joins Aimee Ansa...

The view of African languages from low-Earth orbit:

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#lt4all2025 #lt4all #languagematters #techforgood | CLEAR Global 🧬 "Language is from people and it belongs to people." A take from a refreshing conference by our Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was…

"Language is from people and it belongs to people."

Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was satisfied to see indigenous people as active participants in hashtag#LT4All2025 telling big tech to watch out for neocolonial ways of working.

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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
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This is TODAY - still 4 hours to register.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi

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The language technology platform for Africa that ACALAN is questing to implement, being revealed at the UNESCO #LT4all conference (Language Technology for All) in Paris.

#indigenouslanguages

Experts and stakeholders from around the world are meeting in Paris today regarding Language Technology for the billions who speak languages other than the usual suspects.

Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference
www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program...

#indigenouslanguages

The Yale negotiated rate for federal grants is north of 60%. Don't look for amazing work like this any time during the next four years.

Introducing KamFupi - Transform how you Share! YouTube video by The Pirate Professor

Here's the link to the part of the video where our Kamusi intern in Kenya talks about his work experience: youtu.be/0RFmvQ912aA?...

Recalling this rather glowing BBC piece from a few years back: www.bbc.com/news/technol.... Tech jobs in Africa are great when they have concern for fairness and well being, not when they are the cheapest way to extract max human labor.

kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!

ChatGPT - Ambele language overview Shared via ChatGPT

What thoughts do you have about these dialogues with AI?
• kamu.si/chatgpt-ambele
• kamu.si/deepseek-ambele
Just happen to be investigating the current state of awareness of Cameroonian languages within the LLMs

Posted this on our #AI / #machinetranslation / #MT -focused account...

What's good for Starlink is good for America. Obviously.

AI Spot Check: watch ChatGPT (o1) way OVERTHINK its response to the prompt:

Changing one character per line, please transform SUSANCOLLINSOFMAINE to CONTEMPTIBLEENABLER

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#ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence

CLEAR Global on LinkedIn: #languageinclusion #lowresourcetech 🚀 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? 🤔 Welcome to our newest monthly series where we showcase recent advancements and insights into…

Cheetah, an open-source toolkit developed by UBC-NLP, focusing on Natural Language Processing for African languages. Cheetah works *experimentally* in 517 African languages, a step on the road toward equitable NLP for non-lucrative languages.

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Aimee Ansari on LinkedIn: What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech: Nwulite Obodo Open Data… Data licensing doesn't sound interesting, but I could do a whole series on just this! Here's a really interesting initiative from the Data Science Law Lab…

🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? Aimee Ansari discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets. Developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya.
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AI Spotcheck:
➡ ChatGPT nailed it.
➡ DeepSeek failed it.
DeepSeek went with MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, which you'll want to read about at kamu.si/tyb-musa

#machinetranslation #AI #MT #NLP #LLMs #deepseek #chatgpt #openai

First test of DeepSeek for a basic translation, using an authentic-text tweet with a common English expression, to another lucrative language. Major fail.

Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner - Wikipedia

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert

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The 100th episode of Lingthusiasm is a fun race through the linguistics landscape.

Advice learned the hard way - probably better not to listen on 1.7x speed, while in the final km's of a half marathon. Their hundred factoids do flash past rather quickly.

good question - what percentage of Cybertrucks are purchased by bros? Is it 99.8%, or 99.9%?

Oh, you mean like 🧠 in a President

An "oligarch" is a Russian term for someone with a fear of heights. Particularly, a fear of 6th floor hospital windows.

How about anachromojis?
💾 = save
⏩ = fast forward
📽️ = movie/ video
🗻 or ❄️ = snow - increasingly becoming a historical relic (kamu.si/whither-the-...)
🌃 = night stars replaced with Starlink satellites

Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade Looking at the digital technologies powering e-commerce in the 21st century, one might be led to assume that a handful of global languages suffice for trade and communication.

Business Daily Africa: Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade

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The African Languages group on Facebook:
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Country Grid - Languages in Africa

Mostly for Africans...
Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included?
Languages might be
• missing
• double-listed with alternate names
• listed with an alternate name instead of the primary
• not a local mother tongue
kamu.si/country-grid...

Can I suggest using Zotero, if you aren't already? You can upload all your work, easily share the links, and quickly import the references with extensions for Word, WordPress, and more.

Like this: www.zotero.org/malangali