The African Languages Lab: Exploring the African Languages Landscape and Technologies

Track: Multilingual AI | C1 |
Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 1:45am – 2:30am
Held in: Jujama
Presenters:
Yinka Ajibola - African Languages Lab 
Sheriff Issaka - African Languages Lab

In this session, we explore the African Languages Landscape, technologies, and recommended methodologies.

Takeaways: Attendees will get an overview of the African Languages Landscape, the major problems in building machine translation (MT) for African languages, and a roadmap on how to build an MT system for African languages.