{"id":1351,"date":"2024-03-07T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localizzzafrica.com\/?page_id=1351"},"modified":"2024-08-23T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T18:22:58","slug":"engage-africa-nlp-the-app","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/localizzzafrica.com\/pny\/engage-africa-nlp-the-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Engage Africa NLP – The App"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Engage Africa NLP initiative is a project designed to foster accessibility and use of African languages in the digital realm through the power of NLP and ML.<\/p>\n

This program aims to harness the expertise of language experts, native speakers, translators and technologists to develop tools and applications focusing on low-resourced, underrepresented African languages, with an initial focus on Cameroonian languages.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We have started working on Cameroonian languages such as Gh\u0254m\u00e1l\u00e1’, Fulfulde, Ewondo, Duala, Bassa, Bulu, Fe’fe’, Kom, Medumba, Yemba, Bamum, Pinyin, Ngiemboon, Meta’, Nso’, Tupuri, Cameroon Pidgin and Camfranglais. <\/span><\/p>\n

More languages will be added with time.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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By gathering diverse linguistic data, we want to help AI serve not just major languages but also those traditionally overlooked such as Gh\u0254m\u00e1l\u00e1’, Fulfulde, Ewondo, Duala, Bassa, Bulu, Fe’fe’, Kom, Medumba, Yemba, Ewondo, Bamum, Pinyin, Ngiemboon, Meta’, Nso’, Toupouri, Cameroon Pidgin, Camfranglais and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Engage Africa NLP app is now available on both the App Store and the Play Store.<\/p>\n

We are currently using the data collection features of the platform to collect linguistic data and build bilingual corpus between English and each language in order to build the tech.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the platform will evolve to host the tools and tech obtained by training the model.<\/p>\n

Everyone can help! Please contribute data, provide feedback, suggest a language focus or click around to find the Request a Translation menu, and give us some work to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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