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6th AfricaNLP Workshop @aclmeeting #ACL2025NLP #ACL2025 @masakhane Opening remark by @Shmuhammadd

Half a decade ago, finding a public Igbo speech-text dataset was impossible, and resources for Yoruba and Hausa were relatively few. Today, we’re changing that narrative! We proudly present the largest African speech dataset for Nigerian languages, encompassing 1,800 hours and featuring the voices of over 5,000 speakers 🤯 and capturing the vibrant essence of Nigerian culture. And we're just getting started. Watch our story. Discover more about the community & dataset: naijavoices.com #NaijaVoices #OurLanguageIsOurStrength

Help us reach our goal to send Masakhane community members to the Deep Learning Indaba taking place in Septermber! We're aiming to secure flights and lodging by August 20th. Share widely 📷 masakhane.io/events/masakha… Reach out to @Onyothi @ChrisEmezue

Glad to share that our paper got accepted to #LREC2024 Come listen to our oral presentation on May 23rd Read: bit.ly/44FBEli With @ChrisEmezue @igezeani @perayson @ijemmaohno

🌱 We’re very excited that our work "Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning" was also accepted! Congrats to authors @singhshiviii, @freddiev4, @mrdanieldsouza, @tellarin, @freakynut, @weiyinko_ml, @krypticmouse, @rv__init__, @DeividasMat,

An intentionally, fully multilingual first research initiative by @CohereForAI . So happy and proud to have been part of this year-long project. The papers: arxiv.org/abs/2402.06619 arxiv.org/abs/2402.07827 #nolanguageleftbehind

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models. cohere.com/research/aya

I’m hearing chatter of PhD students not knowing what to work on. My take: as LLMs are deployed IRL, the importance of studying how to use them will increase. Some good directions IMO (no training): 1. prompting 2. evals 3. LM interfaces 4. safety 5. understanding LMs 6. emergence

@Rufus87078959 No, for now, pigin English is not part of the languages

@IfyOD1 @sarahookr I don't speak Igbo, or else I would have join willingly but I can contribute to Pidgin English Incase you need any volunteers.

Come join us on this open-source journey of contributing to a large-scale multilingual dataset where 101 languages across the world are well-represented, If you're interested in contributing to the Igbo language join here aya.for.ai or DM

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With PhD applications due soon, thousands of young people are currently beginning their statements of purpose with the same cliché story, or the same anodyne statement Stop right now! Here are 10 thoughts for doing this right. Helps you, and helps admissions committees.👇

🎉 Thrilled to announce the OSS release of LIDA - a lib for automated visualization with #llms 🛠️ API for #datavisualization generation, eval, editing, recommendation 🔄 Supports multiple LLM providers (@openai, @cohere, PaLM, @huggingface) 🌟 Great UI ➡️ github.com/microsoft/lida

📣Calling on the African NLP community and language enthusiasts! 🌍 Please share widely and help us make sure Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans & Malagasy are included in the development of language AI. Be in touch if interested in championing contributions to Aya. sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya…

Next week join the Aya African Language Challenge! 🌍🚀🔥 Let's push the boundaries and make African languages shine in the development of language AI. Join our server to get in on the fun: discord.gg/JeNmb76GK4

Our European Sprint for the Aya project is this weekend, June 17-18.🌍Join us to help ensure every European language is included in the development of language AI! More info here: sites.google.com/cohere.com/aya… Register to participate here: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Introducing Aya: An Open Science Initiative to Accelerate Multilingual AI Progress txt.cohere.com/aya-multilingu… 🧵 [1/11]

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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched this video.