Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:45 pm 1 CommentThe deaf population face many challenges in society. Apart from being unable to communicate with most people, they are often... View Article
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A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsIn this talk, researcher Denis Pastory Rubanga presents on a mini project that seeks to use Computer Vision to test... View Article
Optimal transformer depth for low-resource language translation – ICLR 2020
July 25, 2020 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsIn his presentation, Elan says that out of the box transformer hyper-parameter configurations are ill-suited for low resource tasks. This... View Article
Towards Neural Machine Translation for Edoid Languages – ICLR 2020
July 6, 2020 8:33 am Leave your thoughtsEdoid languages are approximately 30 languages spoken by 5 Million speakers in the south of Nigeria. In his presentation, Iroro... View Article
Masakhane Machine Translation for Africa – ICLR 2020
July 6, 2020 8:26 am Leave your thoughtsIn this talk, Jade Abbott introduces Masakhane, a grassroots NLP community in Africa, by Africans. In spite of the fact... View Article
Unsupervised Pidgin Text Generation by Pivoting English Data and Self – Training – ICLR 2020
July 6, 2020 8:26 am Leave your thoughtsPidgin is a language that is widely spoken in West Africa. According to Ernie (the presenter) It is used by... View Article
Olubayo Adekanmbi from MTN and Data Science Nigeria on how AI ecosystems are created
April 20, 2020 11:57 am Leave your thoughtsWhat are you working on at the moment? My name is Olubayo Adekanmbi, I work for MTN Nigeria. I drive... View Article
Arabic Speech-to-Moroccan Sign Language Translator: “Learning for Deaf”
April 12, 2020 9:05 am 2 CommentsProject by: Dr. Abdelhak Mahmoudi , Mohammed V University of Rabat, MoroccoProject name: Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: ‘Learning for Deaf’Project description:... View Article
Getting data: Creating a ground truth dataset for malaria diagnosis in Tanzania
April 9, 2020 9:00 am Leave your thoughtsSo why have we decided to collect malaria datasets to assist in developing a solution in its diagnosis? First, Malaria... View Article
Improving Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records
March 29, 2020 4:26 pm Leave your thoughtsThis research focuses on enhancing Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Our major task was... View Article
Building a Data Pipeline for a Real World Machine Learning Application
March 29, 2020 9:40 am Leave your thoughtsWe set out with a novel idea; to develop an application that would (i) collect an individual’s Blood Pressure (BP)... View Article
Extracting meta-data from Malawi Court Judgments
March 20, 2020 12:36 pm 1 CommentProject by: Dr. Amelia Taylor, Eva Mfutso-Bengo and Binart Kachule, University of Malawi and the Polytechnic,University of Malawi, MalawiProject name:... View Article