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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This week, @princeton.edu is hosting the 29th Annual ALTA Conference, April 9–11, co-organized by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Associate Research Scholar at @princetonainews.bsky.social and CDH affiliate! Theme: "Reimagining African Language Pedagogy in the Digital Age." Open to all to attend.

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ALTA 2026: Reimagining African Language Pedagogy In the Digital Age

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"African Languages in the Age of AI" returns! David Ifeoluwa Adelani (McGill, Mila - Quebec AI Institute, CIFAR) will describe different approaches to scaling evaluation to several languages. Join us on Oct 30! Introduction by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social.

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David Ifeoluwa Adelani: Scaling Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs to Many Languages

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Happy @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If you’re an incoming Princeton 🐯 this fall, consider joining FRS159 - a unique chance to dive into technology, culture and African Languages. More about the course in the post below.

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Princeton Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence @princetonainews.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

That's a wrap on the @princetonpiirs.bsky.social Global Seminar in Kenya! Students discovered how to teach a computer to understand African languages & explored the current landscape of language technologies in Africa. Thanks to @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social for this pic from the final poster session!

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Happy @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Check out our recent work on Lugha-Llama introducing three state-of-the-art Africa-centric language models. If your at NAACL next week let’s connect.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

So lovely to chat about Poetry's Data with friends at Johns Hopkins! And, @feinsod.bsky.social snapped this lovely picture of me which I'll share because I love the book slide (and yes I wear too many hats). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Happy @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The 6th AfricaNLP Workshop on “Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs" will be co-located with ACL’25 in Vienna. Submission deadline: March 7. - Extended Abstracts: Up to 2 pages - Full Papers: Up to 8 pages - Previously submitted ARR papers are welcome sites.google.com/view/african...

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Alex Wettig @awettig.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🤔 Ever wondered how prevalent some type of web content is during LM pre-training? In our new paper, we propose WebOrganizer which *constructs domains* based on the topic and format of CommonCrawl web pages 🌐 Key takeaway: domains help us curate better pre-training data! 🧵/N

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📰 Now on the #Princeton Homepage! "Teaching Computers to Understand African Languages," a new Freshman Seminar taught by CDH/PAHC Postdoc @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, focuses on the challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs and access to the benefits of AI.

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Millions on the African continent can’t fully benefit from the AI revolution. This Princeton course aims to change that.

The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We're thrilled to share the recording of Ernest Mwebaze's talk, "End-to-End African Language Technology" from our African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series! Watch on our website here: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/...

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A man presenting a lecture at the front of a classroom with a slide projected on the screen that states "How well do these models work in practice?" The viewpoint is from the back of the room, peering through an opening between people in the audience.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Join us for the final African Languages in the Age of AI series lecture this Friday, 11/22, with #GrahamNeubig (Carnegie Mellon): "Towards AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures." More info/RSVP: cdh.princeton.edu/events/2024/... #HumanitiesforAI

Promotional poster for the African Languages in the Age of AI Speaker Series, featuring an event on Friday, November 22 with Professor Graham Neubig discussing 'AI Models That Can Visually Understand the World's Cultures'. Hosted by the Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. Includes details about the time, location, RSVP QR codes, and sponsor logos.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

We are thrilled to continue the “African Languages in the Age of AI” series this week with Ernest Mwebaze (Sunbird AI, Kampala, Uganda) who will give a talk on “End-to-End African Language Technology”. Please join us Thursday, Oct 24, 4:30 – 6:00 pm at Friend Center 006.

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End-to-End African Language Technology

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Happy @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

The CfP for the 5th Africa Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP2024) is out. sites.google.com/view/african...

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