3 experts
Vukosi Marivate
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 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
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