Every week we have more ideas, and more impromptu projects that emerge. Keen on any initiatives? Join our slack and find the respective group.
Working on a Masakhane initiative that is not listed here? Please add it with a PR ❤️
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| Initiative | Description | Slack Group |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmarks | Continued expansion and iterations on our language benchmarks as documented on the main GitHUB README | #benchmarks |
| Dataset Creation | We never have enough data. More is always needed. We have a number of members finding creative ways to build datasets. | #datasetcreation |
| Reproducibility | The goal is to ensure reproducibility and comparability of models and results. | #reproducibility |
| Takalani NLP | Development of Language Models for South African languages | #takalani-nlp |
| Wazobia | Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian languages NMT | #wazobia |
| Multilingual Chatbot | Developing multilingual chatbots | #multilingual-dialogue |
| Transfer Learning | Transfer Learning & Multilingual Expansion of Benchmarks | #transfer-learning |
| Evaluation of Masakhane Models | How good are the Masakhane models? How can we measure it, besides looking at BLEU scores? | #evaluation |
| Open Virtual Assistant | Let's build an open virtual assistant that speaks African languages. | #open-virtual-assistant |