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Keynote: Bonaventure Dossou about Building Efficient Language Technologies for African Languages

Bonaventure F. P. Dossou

2022 Keynote with Audience Q&A
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Affinity Event: Global South in AI

Abstract

Research Readout: AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pre-trained models

Hear from Bonaventure Dossou co-founder of Lanfrica, ex- researcher from Google AI, Mila Institute and a research leader in Language AI inclusiveness on their work and research readout on AfroML.

Read full paper here https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03263 and come with questions.

Speaker

Bonaventure F. P. Dossou

I am a Ph.D. student at the Research Center for Intelligent Machines, in the Probability Vision Group at McGill University. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Science in Computer Science and Data Engineering, minoring in Bioinformatics. I contribute to building advanced language technologies for low-resource languages, especially African Languages: I am an African NLP Researcher with Masakhane Research Foundation, co-building Lanfrica to increase the discoverability of African works, and I previously worked as a Researcher at Google Research in the language team. I also worked on Drug Discovery and Pharmaceuticals-related challenges at the Mila Quebec AI Institute, Roche Canada Pharmaceuticals, and at Modelis.

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