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"African Languages in the Age of AI" returns! David Ifeoluwa Adelani (McGill, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, CIFAR) will describe different approaches to scaling evaluation to several languages. Join us on Oct 30! Introduction by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social.
David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages
David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages
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October 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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We welcomed 2 new associate research scholars this fall 🥳

Liam Fowl and @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social will be supporting the ongoing research at Princeton Language and Intelligence.

Read more: ai.princeton.edu/news/2025/ai...
AI Lab Welcomes Associate Research Scholars
This fall, two new associate research scholars join Princeton Language and Intelligence, one of the research initiatives under the AI Lab. The scholars will be supporting the ongoing research at PLI t...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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If you’re an incoming Princeton 🐯 this fall, consider joining FRS159 - a unique chance to dive into technology, culture and African Languages. More about the course in the post below.
princetoncdh.bsky.social Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Aug 12
Thinking about enrolling in @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social's first-year seminar, Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages (FRS 159), this fall? Check out the feature story on it from earlier this year: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/02...

Course: registrar.princeton.edu/course-offer...
Buzaaba, Mwita, and Ernest having a discussion in the classroom Teacher highlights multiple A.I translations of African languages to class Two students in class sharing a laptop
August 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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That's a wrap on the @princetonpiirs.bsky.social Global Seminar in Kenya! Students discovered how to teach a computer to understand African languages & explored the current landscape of language technologies in Africa.

Thanks to @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social for this pic from the final poster session!
students and instructors pose together with three scientific posters
July 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Direct link: blog.ai.princeton.edu/2025/04/22/l...
Lugha-Llama: Adapting Large Language Models for African Languages – Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
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May 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Check out our recent work on Lugha-Llama introducing three state-of-the-art Africa-centric language models.
If your at NAACL next week let’s connect.
princetonainews.bsky.social Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence @princetonainews.bsky.social · Apr 25
In our latest blog post, @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Alexander Wettig, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, and Christiane Fellbaum describe the training setting and data for producing Lugha-Llama, an Africa-centric language model

Read now: blog.ai.princeton.edu/2025/04/22/l...
figure showing model performance on African Language tasks
April 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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So lovely to chat about Poetry's Data with friends at Johns Hopkins! And, @feinsod.bsky.social snapped this lovely picture of me which I'll share because I love the book slide (and yes I wear too many hats). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
A photo of an academic (Meredith Martin) in profile view reading from her book Poetry's Data, with a slide projected image behind her of a page of the book "Caps for Sale," which is is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W. R. Scott in 1940.
March 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The 6th AfricaNLP Workshop on “Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" will be co-located with ACL’25 in Vienna.
Submission deadline: March 7.

 - Extended Abstracts: Up to 2 pages
- Full Papers: Up to 8 pages
- Previously submitted ARR papers are welcome
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AfricaNLP 2025
About the Workshop
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February 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🤔 Ever wondered how prevalent some type of web content is during LM pre-training?

In our new paper, we propose WebOrganizer which *constructs domains* based on the topic and format of CommonCrawl web pages 🌐

Key takeaway: domains help us curate better pre-training data! 🧵/N
February 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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📰 Now on the #Princeton Homepage! "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages," a new Freshman Seminar taught by CDH/PAHC Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and access to the benefits of AI.
Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.
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February 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.
www.princeton.edu
February 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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We're thrilled to share the recording of Ernest Mwebaze's talk, "End-to-End African Language Technology" from our African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series! Watch on our website here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
A man presenting a lecture at the front of a classroom with a raised hand and a grin. A man presenting a lecture at the front of a classroom with a slide projected on the screen that states "How well do these models work in practice?" The viewpoint is from the back of the room, peering through an opening between people in the audience.
December 13, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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Join us for the final African Languages in the Age of AI series lecture this Friday, 11/22, with #GrahamNeubig (Carnegie Mellon): "Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures." More info/RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
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Promotional poster for the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series, featuring an event on Friday, November 22 with Professor Graham Neubig discussing 'AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures'. Hosted by the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. Includes details about the time, location, RSVP QR codes, and sponsor logos. Portrait of a smiling person with short hair wearing a checkered shirt against a white background. The person in the image is Graham Neubig who will be presenting the lecture for this event.
November 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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We are thrilled to continue the “African Languages in the Age of AI” series this week with Ernest Mwebaze (Sunbird AI, Kampala, Uganda) who will give a talk on “End-to-End African Language Technology”. Please join us Thursday, Oct 24, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at Friend Center 006.
End-to-End African Language Technology
End-to-End African Language Technology
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October 22, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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The CfP for the 5th Africa Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP2024) is out.

sites.google.com/view/african...
December 23, 2023 at 5:47 AM