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Creating and sharing digital resources for languages worldwide, with a special focus on marginalized languages and the languages of Africa

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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 12/05/2025
The view of African languages from low-Earth orbit: www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
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🗣️ “There are a billion and half people speaking in Africa and they have… | CLEAR Global
🗣️ “There are a billion and half people speaking in Africa and they have almost nothing for their own languages, although those are the languages they use every day.” Martin Benjamin joins Aimee Ansa...
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 21/03/2025
"Language is from people and it belongs to people." Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was satisfied to see indigenous people as active participants in hashtag#LT4All2025 telling big tech to watch out for neocolonial ways of working. www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
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#lt4all2025 #lt4all #languagematters #techforgood | CLEAR Global
🧬 "Language is from people and it belongs to people." A take from a refreshing conference by our Computational Linguist and NLP expert, Alp Öktem, who was…
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is TODAY - still 4 hours to register. You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Feb 28, 2025 02:00 PM Nairobi zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The language technology platform for Africa that ACALAN is questing to implement, being revealed at the UNESCO #LT4all conference (Language Technology for All) in Paris. #indigenouslanguages
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 25/02/2025
Experts and stakeholders from around the world are meeting in Paris today regarding Language Technology for the billions who speak languages other than the usual suspects. Today's program at UNESCO #LT4all conference www.lt4all2025.eu/full-program... #indigenouslanguages
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 12/02/2025
Recalling this rather glowing BBC piece from a few years back: www.bbc.com/news/technol.... Tech jobs in Africa are great when they have concern for fairness and well being, not when they are the cheapest way to extract max human labor. kamu.si/introducing-kamfupi - I hope we're better in Nairobi!!
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Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars
The data that powers the most cutting edge technology in Silicon Valley begins in Nairobi's slum.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 07/02/2025
Posted this on our #AI / #machinetranslation / #MT -focused account...
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Teach You Backwards @teachyoubackwards.com · 06/02/2025
AI Spot Check: watch ChatGPT (o1) way OVERTHINK its response to the prompt: Changing one character per line, please transform SUSANCOLLINSOFMAINE to CONTEMPTIBLEENABLER kamu.si/susan-collin... #ai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 05/02/2025
Cheetah, an open-source toolkit developed by UBC-NLP, focusing on Natural Language Processing for African languages. Cheetah works *experimentally* in 517 African languages, a step on the road toward equitable NLP for non-lucrative languages. www.linkedin.com/posts/clear-...
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CLEAR Global on LinkedIn: #languageinclusion #lowresourcetech
🚀 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? 🤔 Welcome to our newest monthly series where we showcase recent advancements and insights into…
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 05/02/2025
🤔 What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech? Aimee Ansari discusses Nwulite Obodo Open Data License, a license for sharing African language datasets. Developed by Data Science Law Lab at the University of Pretoria, with others in South Africa and Kenya. www.linkedin.com/posts/aimee-...
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Aimee Ansari on LinkedIn: What’s Interesting in Low-Resource Language Tech: Nwulite Obodo Open Data…
Data licensing doesn't sound interesting, but I could do a whole series on just this! Here's a really interesting initiative from the Data Science Law Lab…
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Teach You Backwards @teachyoubackwards.com · 01/02/2025
AI Spotcheck: ➡ ChatGPT nailed it. ➡ DeepSeek failed it. DeepSeek went with MUSA, the Make Up Stuff Algorithm, which you'll want to read about at kamu.si/tyb-musa #machinetranslation #AI #MT #NLP #LLMs #deepseek #chatgpt #openai
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Teach You Backwards @teachyoubackwards.com · 31/01/2025
First test of DeepSeek for a basic translation, using an authentic-text tweet with a common English expression, to another lucrative language. Major fail.
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ACALAN @acalan-au.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 24/01/2025
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 20/01/2025
The 100th episode of Lingthusiasm is a fun race through the linguistics landscape. Advice learned the hard way - probably better not to listen on 1.7x speed, while in the final km's of a half marathon. Their hundred factoids do flash past rather quickly.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 17/01/2025
How about anachromojis? 💾 = save ⏩ = fast forward 📽️ = movie/ video 🗻 or ❄️ = snow - increasingly becoming a historical relic (kamu.si/whither-the-...) 🌃 = night stars replaced with Starlink satellites
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 16/01/2025
Business Daily Africa: Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade kamu.si/language-tec...
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Harnessing power of language, tech to boost SME digital trade
Looking at the digital technologies powering e-commerce in the 21st century, one might be led to assume that a handful of global languages suffice for trade and communication.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 15/01/2025
The African Languages group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/46760...
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 14/01/2025
Mostly for Africans... Are you positioned to go through the language list for your country and find errors in what is included? Languages might be • missing • double-listed with alternate names • listed with an alternate name instead of the primary • not a local mother tongue kamu.si/country-grid...
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Country Grid - Languages in Africa
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 13/01/2025
Nicely conceived and produced video about learning a language out of the mainstream kamu.si/welsh-learning
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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The disastrous fires in LA were, of course, predicted. Still, the world remains complacent to climate change because the "smart people" will figure it out. Except 🅰️ They have figured it out but 8 billion people are not ready to listen, and 🅱️ They haven't figured it out, e.g. they still drive and fly
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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New word for the disasters to be unleashed by the incoming Fourth Reich. Feel free to share liberally.
Shitsunami - AI Art made with Adobe Firefly in response to the prompt: A massive, towering tsunami wave with churning brown water, crashing forward upon a city under a blue sky. The wave is dark and foamy, roiling with sediment and debris. The water should be brown, like sewage. Dogs and garbage are falling out of the wave. Style: japanese painting
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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
AI Spot Check: Caught ChatGPT CHEATING! YouTuber @albertatech posted a video on why LLMs can't count the Rs in strawberry Suddenly, it gives the right answer. BUT that's obviously a human intervention - my followup shows that the inherent process problem remains youtube.com/shorts/7pQrM...
ChatGPT transcript, where the LLM claims that the name Muhammed, spelled m u h a m m e d, contains two Ms instead of three.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 06/01/2025
Workers at a construction site in Kigali, Rwanda, carrying loads of cement on their heads, October 2010
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/01/2025
Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Tanzania has a population of 62,000,000. 0.09 dental personnel per 10,000 people. That is, about 1 dentist for every 6 million people. My first thought on looking up the stat was, "It can't be THAT bad, can it?"
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 30/12/2024
Regular Chinese (not scholars) - how tough is their language to write? kamu.si/chinese-char... Kamusi actually has an approach to a uniquely effective logical dictionary to locate Chinese terms without knowing the characters to write. But no funding prospects - can share the link if ur interested
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 28/12/2024
Oh, this is fun! In 30 seconds, they'll analyze your English and guess where you're originally from. Give it a whirl - did they get you right? start.boldvoice.com/accent-guesser (We're not endorsing the product they're selling, though would be curious to hear from people who've used it.)
Screenshot of Bold Voice dot com analysis of the speech of a native English speaker
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 24/12/2024
A first attempt to list every language spoken in Africa, per country. Please be brutal in finding things to fix! kamu.si/country-grid...
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Country Grid - Languages in Africa
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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
1st CEFR criterion to rank as A1 Basic language proficiency: Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. How would you form a similar objective for an LLM that is training on a new language? kamu.si/cefr-levels
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Global scale - Table 1 (CEFR 3.3): Common Reference levels - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) - www.coe.int
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PirateProfessor @pirateprofessor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I'm looking for input on a new metric for LLM evaluation, based on how we rank human proficiency via CEFR. I'll post each human criterion & ask you: what is the computer task equivalent at that level? My basic premise is, metrics like BLEU are vapid ##s, we need something better kamu.si/cefr-levels
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Global scale - Table 1 (CEFR 3.3): Common Reference levels - Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) - www.coe.int
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Even though we associate language death with modern times, languages have been dying out in Late Antiquity too. Sometimes (well, most of the time) we learn about how it happened in quite unusual ways. A little thread 🧵 1/ Isidore, Etymologies, bk. IX.1 On languages St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 231
A manuscript page with a large red L initial.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 16/12/2024
Persnickety question, what is a language. A bit of clarification at kamu.si/7000-languages
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 13/12/2024
Technocolonialism at its finest. Here's a very real cautionary tale about what happens when AI is let loose on indigenous languages without serious human oversight: anishinabeknews.ca/2024/10/22/f...
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Fraudulent Anishinaabemowin resources a serious concern – Anishinabek News
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 10/12/2024
Important perspective on the purposes and inadequacies of language technology for smaller languages. (You can watch on 1.75 speed, we won't tell anyone.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcU_...
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ALTA 2024 Keynote#2 - Steven Bird, Language Technology and the Metacrisis
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 09/12/2024
The book Google doesn't want you to read
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 08/12/2024
managed to customize our Bluesky handle, so we're @kamusi.org going forward
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 05/12/2024
Fantastic illustration of the basic concept of the unfunded temporal dimension planned for the Kamusi data matrix, the "4" in Kam4D. kamu.si/kam4d-time - if you are not taken right to the relevant section (browsers work funny), look for "time" in the table of contents, or scroll
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Kam4D Lexicographic Database
Lexicography in Four Dimensions: Database Structure for a Matrix of Human Expression Across Time and Space Martin Benjamin, Jérôme Bâton, Greg McKeen This paper documents the lexicographic struct...
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 04/12/2024
I like the term “loanword” because it implies the word will need to be returned at some point. “Café” is due back to the French in three days. The fines on “raccoon” have really been piling up with the Algonquin so make sure to return that this week
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 02/12/2024
Pronouncing "banal" like "canal". Or either those without their first letter.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 02/12/2024
It says too much that Biden only manages to land symbolically in Africa at 11:58 pm in his presidency. Message: I care? This "gift" link to the NYT article will expire in 2 weeks: kamu.si/biden-africa...
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Biden Arrives in Angola on His Only Trip as President to Sub-Saharan Africa
The president arrived in Angola, where he will highlight American commitment to Africa in the economic competition against China.
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 01/12/2024
A good way to frame the current state of AI for most marginalized languages. One can't pretend you'll get any sort of useful AGI without a heck of a lot of effort, but it's worth dipping a toe in the water. The CEFR scale is a helpful comparative metric!
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 28/11/2024
kamu.si/%F0%90%AB%95... - with the unique software we developed at Kamusi Labs, did you know you can actually make URLs with Manichaean script (or hieroglyphs, or emojis, or any Unicode)? Check out kamfupi.link , but only if you're ready to be blown away.
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Main page
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 27/11/2024
Languages don't go extinct because they are not rich enough to convey the full range of the thoughts of their speakers. They do go extinct because their speakers are not rich enough to stand up to external pressures, whether outright oppression or the kids looking for jobs in a dominant tongue.
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Jérôme B. Jérôme 🐧 📚 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @wadael.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Monday. Rage and courage to all
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kamusi.org @kamusi.org · 25/11/2024
Good opening post for our new kamusi.org Bluesky account? youtu.be/dqiypMz5xGo?...
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Sheryl Crow - The First Cut is the Deepest (Live at Farm Aid 2003)
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