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Experts

People working in digital language inclusion

3 experts

Vukosi Marivate

University of Pretoria

Professor of Computer Science

Co-founder of Masakhane, the grassroots pan-African NLP research community, and a leading voice building open datasets, models and researcher capacity for African-language NLP.

Region(s)

Africa

Language(s)

Tsonga, Zulu, Xhosa, Swahili (macrolanguage)

Script(s)

Latin

Technologies

NLP

Baba Mamadi Diané

N'Ko literary community

N'Ko scholar & lexicographer

Co-author of N'Ko-French lexicography and co-author of NLP papers building the first parallel corpora and machine translation resources for N'Ko, a script used by tens of millions across West Africa.

Region(s)

Africa

Language(s)

N'Ko, Bambara, Dyula

Script(s)

N’Ko

Technologies

NLP

Mitesh Khapra

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Associate Professor

Leads AI4Bharat, building open datasets and models (e.g. IndicTrans2, Samanantar) that power India's Bhashini language mission and bring translation, speech and text technology to Indian languages at parity with English.

Region(s)

Asia

Language(s)

Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu

Script(s)

Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu

Technologies

Open models