Masakhane is a research community working on natural-language technologies for African languages.
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MasakhaNER's authors release named-entity-recognition data, code and models for ten African languages. The work makes participation and language coverage part of the practical infrastructure of AI research.
Put language communities and local research capacity inside the story of AI capability.
Individual datasets cover particular languages and tasks; they cannot represent Africa or all speakers as a whole.
Public publications and linked community-produced datasets and code