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Creating and sharing digital resources for languages worldwide, with a special focus on marginalized languages and the languages of Africa
"Language is from people and it belongs to people."
Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was satisfied to see indigenous people as active participants in hashtag#LT4All2025 telling big tech to watch out for neocolonial ways of working.
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Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was satisfied to see indigenous people as active participants in hashtag#LT4All2025 telling big tech to watch out for neocolonial ways of working.
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
#lt4all2025 #lt4all #languagematters #techforgood | CLEAR Global
🧬 "Language is from people and it belongs to people."
A take from a refreshing conference by our Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was…
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March 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Language is from people and it belongs to people."
Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was satisfied to see indigenous people as active participants in hashtag#LT4All2025 telling big tech to watch out for neocolonial ways of working.
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was satisfied to see indigenous people as active participants in hashtag#LT4All2025 telling big tech to watch out for neocolonial ways of working.
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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This is TODAY - still 4 hours to register.
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is TODAY - still 4 hours to register.
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The language technology platform for Africa that ACALAN is questing to implement, being revealed at the UNESCO #LT4all conference (Language Technology for All) in Paris.
#indigenouslanguages
#indigenouslanguages
February 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The language technology platform for Africa that ACALAN is questing to implement, being revealed at the UNESCO #LT4all conference (Language Technology for All) in Paris.
#indigenouslanguages
#indigenouslanguages
Experts and stakeholders from around the world are meeting in Paris today regarding Language Technology for the billions who speak languages other than the usual suspects.
Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference
www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program...
#indigenouslanguages
Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference
www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program...
#indigenouslanguages
February 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Experts and stakeholders from around the world are meeting in Paris today regarding Language Technology for the billions who speak languages other than the usual suspects.
Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference
www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program...
#indigenouslanguages
Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference
www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program...
#indigenouslanguages
Recalling this rather glowing BBC piece from a few years back: www.bbc.com/news/technol.... Tech jobs in Africa are great when they have concern for fairness and well being, not when they are the cheapest way to extract max human labor.
kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!
kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!
February 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Recalling this rather glowing BBC piece from a few years back: www.bbc.com/news/technol.... Tech jobs in Africa are great when they have concern for fairness and well being, not when they are the cheapest way to extract max human labor.
kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!
kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!
AI Spotcheck:
• #ChatGPT (o1): Sophisticated Hallucinations
• #Deepseek: Bald-faced Lies
kamu.si/ai-spotcheck...
Researchers found a new species while inventing eBay.
In 2004, a previously unidentified species of sea urchin was discovered in Antarctica
#AI #artificialintelligence
• #ChatGPT (o1): Sophisticated Hallucinations
• #Deepseek: Bald-faced Lies
kamu.si/ai-spotcheck...
Researchers found a new species while inventing eBay.
In 2004, a previously unidentified species of sea urchin was discovered in Antarctica
#AI #artificialintelligence
Prompts to ChatGPT (o1) and Deepseek on 7 February 2025
Prompt to ChatGPT (o1) on 7 February 2025 what is the Site where a previously unidentified species of sea urchin was discovered in 2004 Reasoned about sea urchin discovery site for 1m 0s Locating the...
kamu.si
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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AI Spot Check: watch ChatGPT (o1) way OVERTHINK its response to the prompt:
Changing one character per line, please transform SUSANCOLLINSOFMAINE to CONTEMPTIBLEENABLER
kamu.si/susan-collin...
#ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence
Changing one character per line, please transform SUSANCOLLINSOFMAINE to CONTEMPTIBLEENABLER
kamu.si/susan-collin...
#ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence
February 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
AI Spot Check: watch ChatGPT (o1) way OVERTHINK its response to the prompt:
Changing one character per line, please transform SUSANCOLLINSOFMAINE to CONTEMPTIBLEENABLER
kamu.si/susan-collin...
#ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence
Changing one character per line, please transform SUSANCOLLINSOFMAINE to CONTEMPTIBLEENABLER
kamu.si/susan-collin...
#ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence
Cheetah, an open-source toolkit developed by UBC-NLP, focusing on Natural Language Processing for African languages. Cheetah works *experimentally* in 517 African languages, a step on the road toward equitable NLP for non-lucrative languages.
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
CLEAR Global on LinkedIn: #languageinclusion #lowresourcetech
🚀 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? 🤔
Welcome to our newest monthly series where we showcase recent advancements and insights into…
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February 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Cheetah, an open-source toolkit developed by UBC-NLP, focusing on Natural Language Processing for African languages. Cheetah works *experimentally* in 517 African languages, a step on the road toward equitable NLP for non-lucrative languages.
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? Aimee Ansari discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets. Developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya.
www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
Aimee Ansari on LinkedIn: What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech: Nwulite Obodo Open Data…
Data licensing doesn't sound interesting, but I could do a whole series on just this! Here's a really interesting initiative from the Data Science Law Lab…
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February 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? Aimee Ansari discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets. Developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya.
www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
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AI Spotcheck:
➡ ChatGPT nailed it.
➡ DeepSeek failed it.
DeepSeek went with MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, which you'll want to read about at kamu.si/tyb-musa
#machinetranslation #AI #MT #NLP #LLMs #deepseek #chatgpt #openai
➡ ChatGPT nailed it.
➡ DeepSeek failed it.
DeepSeek went with MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, which you'll want to read about at kamu.si/tyb-musa
#machinetranslation #AI #MT #NLP #LLMs #deepseek #chatgpt #openai
February 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
AI Spotcheck:
➡ ChatGPT nailed it.
➡ DeepSeek failed it.
DeepSeek went with MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, which you'll want to read about at kamu.si/tyb-musa
#machinetranslation #AI #MT #NLP #LLMs #deepseek #chatgpt #openai
➡ ChatGPT nailed it.
➡ DeepSeek failed it.
DeepSeek went with MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, which you'll want to read about at kamu.si/tyb-musa
#machinetranslation #AI #MT #NLP #LLMs #deepseek #chatgpt #openai
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First test of DeepSeek for a basic translation, using an authentic-text tweet with a common English expression, to another lucrative language. Major fail.
January 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
First test of DeepSeek for a basic translation, using an authentic-text tweet with a common English expression, to another lucrative language. Major fail.
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The 100th episode of Lingthusiasm is a fun race through the linguistics landscape.
Advice learned the hard way - probably better not to listen on 1.7x speed, while in the final km's of a half marathon. Their hundred factoids do flash past rather quickly.
Advice learned the hard way - probably better not to listen on 1.7x speed, while in the final km's of a half marathon. Their hundred factoids do flash past rather quickly.
💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯
To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month
See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month
See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and
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January 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The 100th episode of Lingthusiasm is a fun race through the linguistics landscape.
Advice learned the hard way - probably better not to listen on 1.7x speed, while in the final km's of a half marathon. Their hundred factoids do flash past rather quickly.
Advice learned the hard way - probably better not to listen on 1.7x speed, while in the final km's of a half marathon. Their hundred factoids do flash past rather quickly.
How about anachromojis?
💾 = save
⏩ = fast forward
📽️ = movie/ video
🗻 or ❄️ = snow - increasingly becoming a historical relic (kamu.si/whither-the-...)
🌃 = night stars replaced with Starlink satellites
💾 = save
⏩ = fast forward
📽️ = movie/ video
🗻 or ❄️ = snow - increasingly becoming a historical relic (kamu.si/whither-the-...)
🌃 = night stars replaced with Starlink satellites
I've become slightly obsessed with anachronyms; words that are used in an anachronistic way, by referring to something that was appropriate in a former time.
E.g. to clock in, to film something, to hang up the phone, to dial a number.
I've collected a list.
E.g. to clock in, to film something, to hang up the phone, to dial a number.
I've collected a list.
30 examples of anachronyms - English in Progress
Anachronyms are words that are used “in an anachronistic way, by referring to something in a way that is appropriate only for a former or later time.” (Source) I chanced upon the term through a Reddit...
englishinprogress.net
January 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How about anachromojis?
💾 = save
⏩ = fast forward
📽️ = movie/ video
🗻 or ❄️ = snow - increasingly becoming a historical relic (kamu.si/whither-the-...)
🌃 = night stars replaced with Starlink satellites
💾 = save
⏩ = fast forward
📽️ = movie/ video
🗻 or ❄️ = snow - increasingly becoming a historical relic (kamu.si/whither-the-...)
🌃 = night stars replaced with Starlink satellites
Business Daily Africa: Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade
kamu.si/language-tec...
kamu.si/language-tec...
Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade
Looking at the digital technologies powering e-commerce in the 21st century, one might be led to assume that a handful of global languages suffice for trade and communication.
kamu.si
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Business Daily Africa: Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade
kamu.si/language-tec...
kamu.si/language-tec...
The African Languages group on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/46760...
www.facebook.com/groups/46760...
January 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The African Languages group on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/groups/46760...
www.facebook.com/groups/46760...
Mostly for Africans...
Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included?
Languages might be
• missing
• double-listed with alternate names
• listed with an alternate name instead of the primary
• not a local mother tongue
kamu.si/country-grid...
Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included?
Languages might be
• missing
• double-listed with alternate names
• listed with an alternate name instead of the primary
• not a local mother tongue
kamu.si/country-grid...
Country Grid - Languages in Africa
kamu.si
January 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Mostly for Africans...
Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included?
Languages might be
• missing
• double-listed with alternate names
• listed with an alternate name instead of the primary
• not a local mother tongue
kamu.si/country-grid...
Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included?
Languages might be
• missing
• double-listed with alternate names
• listed with an alternate name instead of the primary
• not a local mother tongue
kamu.si/country-grid...
Nicely conceived and produced video about learning a language out of the mainstream
kamu.si/welsh-learning
kamu.si/welsh-learning
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
kamu.si
January 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Nicely conceived and produced video about learning a language out of the mainstream
kamu.si/welsh-learning
kamu.si/welsh-learning
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The disastrous fires in LA were, of course, predicted. Still, the world remains complacent to climate change because the "smart people" will figure it out. Except
🅰️ They have figured it out but 8 billion people are not ready to listen, and
🅱️ They haven't figured it out, e.g. they still drive and fly
🅰️ They have figured it out but 8 billion people are not ready to listen, and
🅱️ They haven't figured it out, e.g. they still drive and fly
January 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The disastrous fires in LA were, of course, predicted. Still, the world remains complacent to climate change because the "smart people" will figure it out. Except
🅰️ They have figured it out but 8 billion people are not ready to listen, and
🅱️ They haven't figured it out, e.g. they still drive and fly
🅰️ They have figured it out but 8 billion people are not ready to listen, and
🅱️ They haven't figured it out, e.g. they still drive and fly
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New word for the disasters to be unleashed by the incoming Fourth Reich. Feel free to share liberally.
January 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
New word for the disasters to be unleashed by the incoming Fourth Reich. Feel free to share liberally.
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AI Spot Check: Caught ChatGPT CHEATING!
YouTuber @albertatech posted a video on why LLMs can't count the Rs in strawberry
Suddenly, it gives the right answer. BUT that's obviously a human intervention - my followup shows that the inherent process problem remains
youtube.com/shorts/7pQrM...
YouTuber @albertatech posted a video on why LLMs can't count the Rs in strawberry
Suddenly, it gives the right answer. BUT that's obviously a human intervention - my followup shows that the inherent process problem remains
youtube.com/shorts/7pQrM...
January 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
AI Spot Check: Caught ChatGPT CHEATING!
YouTuber @albertatech posted a video on why LLMs can't count the Rs in strawberry
Suddenly, it gives the right answer. BUT that's obviously a human intervention - my followup shows that the inherent process problem remains
youtube.com/shorts/7pQrM...
YouTuber @albertatech posted a video on why LLMs can't count the Rs in strawberry
Suddenly, it gives the right answer. BUT that's obviously a human intervention - my followup shows that the inherent process problem remains
youtube.com/shorts/7pQrM...
