Masakhane
BritishEtymology
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."
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