African Language Technologies Lab
A lab focused on increasing the representation of African languages in NLP, LLMs, and AI. Director: Christiane Fellbaum
African Languages continue to lag behind in the rapid advancements of language technology and applications driven by LLMs. Princeton’s Infrastructure for African Languages initiative aims to increase representation of African languages while also foregrounding their values and culture.
This lab, led by Christiane Fellbaum(Linguistics) and Happy Buzaaba (CDH, AI Lab, Africa World Initiative) runs a series projects, courses, and hosts speakers to generate campus-wide discussion about this important topic.
Related projects
African_UD: Universal Dependencies Treebank for African Languages
Increasing the representation of African languages in NLP by creating quality datasets for eleven African languages
African Languages in the Age of AI (AAA) Speaker Series
Bringing leading scholars to Princeton to discuss the opportunities and challenges for developing technologies that empower African languages
Computational Approaches to Nigerian Literature
Experiments in NLP for texts in Yoruba and Efik
Related news
Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.
17 February 2025
Jamie Saxon, Happy Buzaaba
Related events
David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages
A New Agenda for African Languages x AI: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures
Related courses
Global Seminar in Kenya: Technology for African Languages in the Digital Age
