Masakhane, roughly translating to “We build together” in isiZulu. is a community-based group of African technologists that aim to apply machine learning in the form of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to texts in African languages. This open source collaborative project brings together Researchers, Engineers, NLP enthusiasts and linguistic experts from across Africa, with the shared aim of preserving heritage and improving the digital presence of African Languages.
Africa has over 2,000 living languages that account for only a small portion of available resources and publications, and these languages are severely under-represented in technology and scientific communications. This is due to multiple factors, including: a lack of focus from government and funding, discoverability, a lack of community, language complexity, difficulty in reproducing papers and no benchmarks to compare techniques.
Sample heading
Normal text
