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
Tag Archive: Innovation
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
A Computer Vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction Tool
April 13, 2020 9:03 am 2 CommentsProject by: Denis Pastory Rubanga, Dr. Zekaya Never, Dr. Machuve Dina, Lilian Mkonyi, Loyani K. Loyani, Richard Mgaya.Tokyo University of... View Article
End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol
April 13, 2020 9:01 am Leave your thoughtsThe aim of our project is to investigate the technological feasibility of deploying Unmanned Ground Vehicles for automated wildlife patrol,... 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
December Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de decembre; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
February 4, 2020 12:25 pm Leave your thoughtsThe close of 2019 marked the second month of the AI4D African Dataset Challenge, an effort aimed at incentivizing the... View Article
November Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de novembre ; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
December 23, 2019 11:03 am 2 CommentsOn the 1st of November, we launched the AI4D-African Language Dataset Challenge on Zindi, an effort towards incentivising the uncovering... View Article
AI4D – African Language Dataset Challenge // Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
November 5, 2019 1:13 pm 4 CommentsGetting started with programming is easy, a well-trodden path. Whether it be picking up the skill itself, a new programming... View Article
Announcing the AI4D Africa Innovation 2019 Winners
August 25, 2019 3:46 pm 2 CommentsThe AI for Development (AI4D) Initiative is pleased to announce the winners of the AI4D-Africa Innovation Call for Proposals 2019.... View Article