Category: Language

We are excited to share recently published Lacuna-funded datasets in language! The KenCorpus team, a collaborative of researchers founded by Maseno University, the University of Nairobi, and Africa Nazarene University, have developed rich textual and speech data resources for selected languages spoken in Kenya. These datasets will foster equal opportunities, inclusivity, participation in decision-making, and … Continued

We are proud to share a selection of supported projects from our second cohort, whose ten teams will create openly accessible text and speech datasets that will fuel natural language processing (NLP) technologies in 29 languages in Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa. The training datasets produced will have significant downstream impacts on education, financial inclusion, … Continued