🎉Happy to share our recent collaborative effort on building a culturally diverse, multilingual visual QA dataset! CVQA consists of over 9,000 questions across 28 countries, covering 26 languages (with more to be added!) 🌐cvqa-benchmark.org 📜arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05967

Two papers are accepted at EMNLP 2024 - The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages, with Hellina Hailu Nigatu ,Benjamin Rosman , thamar | & Monojit Choudhury - Walia-LLM: Enhancing Amharic-LLaMA by Integrating Task-Specific and Generative Datasets, with Israel Abebe | እስራኤል አበበ, Seid M,et

We're going to NeurIPS Conference! This work is so special for me because of the set of diverse languages included in the benchmark, most from the global South, and the amazing collaborators that devoted a great deal of time and effort to make cVQA an important resource.

We're thrilled to announce our keynote speaker A for the WiNLP workshop on November 15, 2024, at 9:10 AM! 🎉🎉 Join us for "Richer Output for Richer Countries: Geographical Disparities in Language and Image Generation" by the insightful Danish Pruthi!

🌟 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🌟 We're excited to reveal our next keynote speaker for the #WiNLP workshop on Nov 15, 2024, at 4:00 PM! Join us for "Collaborative Multilingual Data Collection" with the incredible Alham Fikri Aji. Don't miss this opportunity! #nlproc #emnlp

Get ready for an insightful panel at the #WiNLP workshop on Nov 15, 2024, from 2:10 PM! Join us for "Global Voices: Celebrating Diversity in Minds, Methods, and Multilingualism!" with superstar panelists Sunipa Dev Khyathi Chandu @dirk_hovy Monojit Choudhury Malihe Alikhani!

🌊 Sail with us at #WiNLP2024! 🌊 Join panel "Sailing the NLP Seas: Navigating Research in the Age of LLMs" on Nov 15, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM with Abhilasha Ravichander, @Sunayana , Isabelle Augenstein, Lu Wang, Mrinmaya Sachan will dive into the evolving tides of NLP in the LLM era. ⚓️ #EMNLP2024

While we’re cooking up an epic #WiNLP at #EMNLP2024… we’re doubling down for 2025 too! 🔥 WiNLP at #EMNLP2025 is officially ON! Get ready to re-EMNLP-ify, re-WiNLP-ify, and re-windNLP with us for another year of NLP magic! 🎉✨ #NLProc

Just landed in Miami for #EMNLP2024! I will be presenting our paper The Zeno's Paradox of "Low -Resource" Languages in Session 2 today at 11AM. I will also be at the NLP for Wikipedia workshop on Nov 16. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai…

I am happy that our paper won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025 🎉 Congratulations Hellina Hailu Nigatu Benjamin Rosman thamar | & Monojit Choudhury

This week at #EMNLP2024 in Miami, a study from Hellina Hailu Nigatu and Atnafu Lambebo 🇪🇹 won the outstanding paper award for creating a new framework to evaluate low resource languages. I explain why that's important in Computerspeak from Alexandru Voica: computerspeak.co/p/better-defin… #EMNLP EMNLP 2025

Call for Papers: We invite submissions to the 6th AfricaNLP Workshop, co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria. Theme: "Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" Submission Deadline: March 7, 2025 (AoE) Site: sites.google.com/view/africanlp… Masakhane David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬 ACL 2025

🌍 The #AI revolution is leaving #AfricanLanguages behind. Will you stand by or help change that? Join the #BuzuzuMaviChallenge and optimise #InkubaLM for Hausa & Swahili. Compete for prizes & shape Africa’s AI future🙌 Register Now: bit.ly/3Weiy2k #AIForGood #LelapaAI

The 6th AfricaNLP Workshop will be co-located with ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, on the theme: "Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" sites.google.com/view/africanlp… Submission deadline: March 7, 2025. We accept both archival and non-archival papers. #AfricaNLP Masakhane

🚨📣 the AmericasNLP submission deadline is *today*, March 12! We look forward to your long paper, short paper, and extended abstract submissions to the workshop! The workshop is co-located with NAACL 2025. Submission link: softconf.com/naacl2025/amer…

Postdoc opening for research on Vision-Language Modeling at MBZUAI with me and thamar |. 1 year position with possibility for extension. Please share and get in touch if you're interested!

Organizers: Dr. Martha Yifru Tachebele Seid M Michael Melese Atnafu Lambebo 🇪🇹 Tadesse Destaw Israel Abebe | እስራኤል አበበ Abinew Ali Hellina Hailu Nigatu Henok B Ademtew

We need translation systems that understand culture, not just language. Proud to co-lead this project on culturally aware multimodal translation! Huge thanks to the amazing team behind #CaMMT🙏🙏 📄 + 💾 below 👇