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SUMMARY:End-to-End African Language Technology
DESCRIPTION:There is a lot of work on building language resources for low-resource languages. Collecting data\, building a model\, and publishing a paper is the general route taken. However\, building an ‘end-to-end language system’ – a translation and/or speech system that can be practically used in an application is a much tougher task. Ernest Mwebaze will talk about some of the practical use cases for low-resource language models in Ugandan languages and some hacks and workarounds in getting them to work in practice. \nErnest Mwebaze has had a dual career in academia and industry. He possesses over ten years of experience teaching computer science and machine learning. While at Makerere University he co-founded the Makerere University Artificial Intelligence Research Lab leading it to prominence in the field of practical implementation and deployment of artificial intelligence solutions. In industry\, he has worked at the Google AI research lab in Ghana and the UN Pulse lab in Kampala where he focused on practical applications of artificial intelligence to tackle developmental challenges in agriculture\, utility estimation\, and different focus areas of the SDGs. He is passionate about using artificial intelligence to improve society\, particularly in developing parts of the world. He is currently the executive director of Sunbird AI in Kampala\, Uganda. \nThe African Languages in the Age of AI speaker series is co-sponsored and supported by Africa World Initiative\, Program in African Studies\, and Princeton African Humanities Colloquium.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/end-to-end-african-language-technology/
LOCATION:006 Friend Center\, 006 Friend Center\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carrie Ruddick":MAILTO:cruddick@princeton.edu
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