As a passionate Junior Data Scientist, I co-founded and nurtured Takwimu LAB; a vibrant community for AI and Data Science enthusiasts, creating hands-on experiences from online learning paths that everyone could connect with. Together, we promoted research on low-resource African languages, collaborating to collect, label, and publish parallel text datasets for Neural Machine Translation like French-Fongbé and French-Ewe. These efforts resulted in impactful projects such as the prototype of an English-Fongbé Neural ML Translation app, made possible through the AI4D-Africa Network and UNESCO support.
Our work received recognition, including the Zindi Africa Award for the AI4D-African Dataset Challenge (2020). Later, we co-organized a machine translation challenge on Zindi Africa, contributing to the development of local data science talent. We published findings through the AI4D African Language Program, presented at the AfricaNLP Workshop during EACL 2021.
- Parallel text dataset for Neural Machine Translation (French - Fongbe, and French - Ewe) was published in November 2020 on https://zenodo.org/record/4266935
- AI4D – African Language Program, Avril 2021. Accepted et presented during AfricaNLP Workshop, EACL2021 Conference. N°: arXiv:2104.02516 [cs.CL]