This week, @princeton.edu is hosting the 29th Annual ALTA Conference, April 9–11, co-organized by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Associate Research Scholar at @princetonainews.bsky.social and CDH affiliate! Theme: "Reimagining African Language Pedagogy in the Digital Age." Open to all to attend.

ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

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"African Languages in the Age of AI" returns! David Ifeoluwa Adelani (McGill, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, CIFAR) will describe different approaches to scaling evaluation to several languages. Join us on Oct 30! Introduction by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social.

David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages

David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages

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We welcomed 2 new associate research scholars this fall 🥳 Liam Fowl and @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social will be supporting the ongoing research at Princeton Language and Intelligence. Read more: ai.princeton.edu/news/2025/ai...

AI Lab Welcomes Associate Research Scholars

This fall, two new associate research scholars join Princeton Language and Intelligence, one of the research initiatives under the AI Lab. The scholars will be supporting the ongoing research at PLI t...

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If you’re an incoming Princeton 🐯 this fall, consider joining FRS159 - a unique chance to dive into technology, culture and African Languages. More about the course in the post below.

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Thinking about enrolling in @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social's first-year seminar, Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages (FRS 159), this fall? Check out the feature story on it from earlier this year: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/02... Course: registrar.princeton.edu/course-offer...

That's a wrap on the @princetonpiirs.bsky.social Global Seminar in Kenya! Students discovered how to teach a computer to understand African languages & explored the current landscape of language technologies in Africa. Thanks to @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social for this pic from the final poster session!

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Check out our recent work on Lugha-Llama introducing three state-of-the-art Africa-centric language models. If your at NAACL next week let’s connect.

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In our latest blog post, @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Alexander Wettig, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, and Christiane Fellbaum describe the training setting and data for producing Lugha-Llama, an Africa-centric language model Read now: blog.ai.princeton.edu/2025/04/22/l...

So lovely to chat about Poetry's Data with friends at Johns Hopkins! And, @feinsod.bsky.social snapped this lovely picture of me which I'll share because I love the book slide (and yes I wear too many hats). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The 6th AfricaNLP Workshop on “Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" will be co-located with ACL’25 in Vienna. Submission deadline: March 7.  - Extended Abstracts: Up to 2 pages - Full Papers: Up to 8 pages - Previously submitted ARR papers are welcome sites.google.com/view/african...

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🤔 Ever wondered how prevalent some type of web content is during LM pre-training? In our new paper, we propose WebOrganizer which *constructs domains* based on the topic and format of CommonCrawl web pages 🌐 Key takeaway: domains help us curate better pre-training data! 🧵/N

📰 Now on the #Princeton Homepage! "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages," a new Freshman Seminar taught by CDH/PAHC Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and access to the benefits of AI.

Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.

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Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.

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We're thrilled to share the recording of Ernest Mwebaze's talk, "End-to-End African Language Technology" from our African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series! Watch on our website here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...

Join us for the final African Languages in the Age of AI series lecture this Friday, 11/22, with #GrahamNeubig (Carnegie Mellon): "Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures." More info/RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #HumanitiesforAI

We are thrilled to continue the “African Languages in the Age of AI” series this week with Ernest Mwebaze (Sunbird AI, Kampala, Uganda) who will give a talk on “End-to-End African Language Technology”. Please join us Thursday, Oct 24, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at Friend Center 006.

End-to-End African Language Technology

End-to-End African Language Technology

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The CfP for the 5th Africa Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP2024) is out. sites.google.com/view/african...