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African languages are not considered when building NLP applications like voice assistants, image recognition software, traffic alerts systems and others.
But African researchers are working to eliminate this handicap.
"We are focused on placing Africa on the NLP and AI research map," Dr Ignatius Ezeani, from the University of Lancaster, told the BBC.
| Title | AI in Africa: Teaching a bot to read my mum's texts |
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| Media name/outlet | BBC News |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| Date | 30/04/20 |
| Description | Fixing the languages gap African languages are not considered when building NLP applications like voice assistants, image recognition software, traffic alerts systems and others. But African researchers are working to eliminate this handicap. "We are focused on placing Africa on the NLP and AI research map," Dr Ignatius Ezeani, from the University of Lancaster, told the BBC. "Unless you have your language resources publicly available, free and open, researchers will not have the data for creative solutions on the fly. We will always have to depend on, say, Google to determine the direction of research," Dr Ezeani said. |
| Producer/Author | Dickens Olewe |
| Persons | Ignatius Ezeani |