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.

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!

Direct link: blog.ai.princeton.edu/2025/04/22/l...

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.

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...

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 sites.google.com/view/african...

🤔 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

📰 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.

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/...

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/... #HumanitiesforAI

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.

The CfP for the 5th Africa Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP2024) is out. sites.google.com/view/african...