4IR IN AFRICA CANNOT TAKE PLACE IN ENGLISH ONLY[Article]
Vukosi Marivate
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IOf the roughly 7 000 languages in the world, 2 000 of them are African – yet African languages are barely represented in technology. The Masakhane Natural Language Processing (NLP) research project aims to give these languages a voiceand spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans.