3 papers
cs.CL2026
Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Srija Anand, Emilio Villa-Cueva +16
Africa is home to over one-third of the world's languages, yet remains underrepresented in AI research. We introduce Afri-MCQA, the first Multilingual Cultural Question-Answering b…
cs.HC2025
Amplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI
Qazi Mamunur Rashid, Erin van Liemt, Tiffany Shih +19
Current AI models often fail to account for local context and language, given the predominance of English and Western internet content in their training data. This hinders the glob…
cs.CY2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Onto-norms and Gender Equality: Unveiling the Invisible Gender Norms in AI Ecosystems in the Context of Africa
Angella Ndaka, Harriet Ratemo, Abigail Oppong +1
The study examines how ontonorms propagate certain gender practices in digital spaces through character and the norms of spaces that shape AI design, training and use. Additionally…