4 papers
Reasoning Beyond Labels: Measuring LLM Sentiment in Low-Resource, Culturally Nuanced Contexts
Millicent Ochieng, Anja Thieme, Ignatius Ezeani +5
Sentiment analysis in low-resource, culturally nuanced contexts challenges conventional NLP approaches that assume fixed labels and universal affective expressions. We present a di…
Dukawalla: Voice Interfaces for Small Businesses in Africa
Elizabeth Ankrah, Stephanie Nyairo, Mercy Muchai +4
Small and medium sized businesses often struggle with data driven decision making do to a lack of advanced analytics tools, especially in African countries where they make up a maj…
IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models
David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime +24
Despite the widespread adoption of Large language models (LLMs), their remarkable capabilities remain limited to a few high-resource languages. Additionally, many low-resource lang…
AI and the Future of Work in Africa White Paper
Jacki O'Neill, Vukosi Marivate, Barbara Glover +71
This white paper is the output of a multidisciplinary workshop in Nairobi (Nov 2023). Led by a cross-organisational team including Microsoft Research, NEPAD, Lelapa AI, and Univers…