@inproceedings{adebara-abdul-mageed-2022-towards,
title = "Towards Afrocentric {NLP} for {A}frican Languages: Where We Are and Where We Can Go",
author = "Adebara, Ife and
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad",
editor = "Muresan, Smaranda and
Nakov, Preslav and
Villavicencio, Aline",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.265",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.265",
pages = "3814--3841",
abstract = "Aligning with ACL 2022 special Theme on {``}Language Diversity: from Low Resource to Endangered Languages{''}, we discuss the major linguistic and sociopolitical challenges facing development of NLP technologies for African languages. Situating African languages in a typological framework, we discuss how the particulars of these languages can be harnessed. To facilitate future research, we also highlight current efforts, communities, venues, datasets, and tools. Our main objective is to motivate and advocate for an Afrocentric approach to technology development. With this in mind, we recommend \textit{what} technologies to build and \textit{how} to build, evaluate, and deploy them based on the needs of local African communities.",
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%A Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
%Y Muresan, Smaranda
%Y Nakov, Preslav
%Y Villavicencio, Aline
%S Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2022
%8 May
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%C Dublin, Ireland
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Afrocentric NLP for African Languages: Where We Are and Where We Can Go](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.265) (Adebara & Abdul-Mageed, ACL 2022)
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