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Masakhane

📍 Africa (continental) · 2019–presente · Masakhane

Scale
local
subnational
national
systemic

Description

Pan-African grassroots collective building NLP and machine translation for African languages.

Lessons learned

Participatory, open and distributed research; produced machine translation benchmarks for 30+ African languages with 100+ contributors.

Linked evidence

Masakhane — Machine Translation for AfricaICLR 2020 / arXiv:2003.11529 · 2020Evidence