A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

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In this talk, Vukosi Marivate, associate professor at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), will discuss the crucial role of community building in developing technologies for African languages in the age of AI. He will touch upon the unique challenges and opportunities in fostering collaboration for African languages, developing technologies that respects and empowers communities, and his vision for the future of technology and community engagements in African languages.

Marivate's expertise lies in the fields of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on natural language processing (NLP) and the development of solutions for local or low-resource languages.
He is also an entrepreneur and innovator: He co-founded Lelapa AI, a startup dedicated to advancing AI technologies for the African continent. He is also a co-founder of the Masakhane NLP research foundation, which is dedicated to promoting NLP research and development in African languages, and of Deep Learning Indaba, an initiative aimed at fostering collaboration and skill development in the field of deep learning across the African continent and beyond.

Simon Gikandi, chair of the Department of English, will serve as a respondent and moderate the Q&A. This event is free and open to the public.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Africa World Initiative

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