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Masakhane

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/ ˌmasaˈkanɪ /
  1. a political slogan of solidarity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Masakhane

C20: Nguni, literally: let us build together

Example Sentences

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Selby Mahlalela, 38, moved to Masakhane in 2006 and has had various maintenance jobs as a contract worker for the state-owned power utility Eskom.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2022

Some of the groups BigScience worked with included Masakhane, an African machine learning group, LatinX in AI, Machine Learning Tokyo, and VietAI.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022

To improve the AI systems in various African languages, Masakhane researchers are also tapping into news sources across the continent, including Voice of America’s Hausa service and the BBC broadcast in Igbo.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021

He’s a founding member of Masakhane, a pan-African research project to improve how dozens of languages are represented in the branch of AI known as natural language processing.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021

The first track, Masakhane, is a stirring call "for unity and hope in the postapartheid era."

From Time Magazine Archive

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