@inproceedings{siminyu-freshia-2020-ai4d,
title = "{AI}4{D} - {A}frican Language Dataset Challenge",
author = "Siminyu, Kathleen and
Freshia, Sackey",
editor = "Cunha, Rossana and
Shaikh, Samira and
Varis, Erika and
Georgi, Ryan and
Tsai, Alicia and
Anastasopoulos, Antonios and
Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Seattle, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.winlp-1.18",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.18",
pages = "68--77",
abstract = "As language and speech technologies become more advanced, the lack of fundamental digital resources for African languages, such as data, spell checkers and PoS taggers, means that the digital divide between these languages and others keeps growing. This work details the organisation of the AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge, an effort to incentivize the creation, curation and uncovering to African language datasets through a competitive challenge, particularly datasets that are annotated or prepared for use in a downstream NLP task.",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="siminyu-freshia-2020-ai4d">
<titleInfo>
<title>AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Kathleen</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Siminyu</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Sackey</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Freshia</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2020-07</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Rossana</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Cunha</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Samira</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Shaikh</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Erika</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Varis</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ryan</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Georgi</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Alicia</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Tsai</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Antonios</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Anastasopoulos</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Khyathi</namePart>
<namePart type="given">Raghavi</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Chandu</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Seattle, USA</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>As language and speech technologies become more advanced, the lack of fundamental digital resources for African languages, such as data, spell checkers and PoS taggers, means that the digital divide between these languages and others keeps growing. This work details the organisation of the AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge, an effort to incentivize the creation, curation and uncovering to African language datasets through a competitive challenge, particularly datasets that are annotated or prepared for use in a downstream NLP task.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">siminyu-freshia-2020-ai4d</identifier>
<identifier type="doi">10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.18</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/2020.winlp-1.18</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2020-07</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>68</start>
<end>77</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge
%A Siminyu, Kathleen
%A Freshia, Sackey
%Y Cunha, Rossana
%Y Shaikh, Samira
%Y Varis, Erika
%Y Georgi, Ryan
%Y Tsai, Alicia
%Y Anastasopoulos, Antonios
%Y Chandu, Khyathi Raghavi
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop
%D 2020
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, USA
%F siminyu-freshia-2020-ai4d
%X As language and speech technologies become more advanced, the lack of fundamental digital resources for African languages, such as data, spell checkers and PoS taggers, means that the digital divide between these languages and others keeps growing. This work details the organisation of the AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge, an effort to incentivize the creation, curation and uncovering to African language datasets through a competitive challenge, particularly datasets that are annotated or prepared for use in a downstream NLP task.
%R 10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.18
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.winlp-1.18
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.18
%P 68-77
Markdown (Informal)
[AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge](https://aclanthology.org/2020.winlp-1.18) (Siminyu & Freshia, WiNLP 2020)
ACL
- Kathleen Siminyu and Sackey Freshia. 2020. AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge. In Proceedings of the Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 68–77, Seattle, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.