Thank you for your interest in our projects. We believe through partnerships, we can do more. Please get in touch with Dr. Marivate [vukosi.marivate@cs.up.ac.za] if you would like to partner or look at ways to support ongoing research work.
We do a number of projects with partners and collaborators. See below. This list is not exhaustive. We will update as time goes on.
Collaborators
Those who keep us grounded
- Dr. Bubaccar Bah - [African Institue for Mathematical Sciences]
- Dr. Ciira Maina - [Dedan Kimathi University][DSAIL]
- Emily Muller - [Imperial College/UCL]
- Kathleen Siminyu - [AI4D]
- Mahlatse Mbooi - [CSIR]
- Maxamed Axmed - [MSR]
- Nyalleng Moorosi - [Google AI]
- Tshepisho Sefara - [CSIR]
- Tshepiso Mokoena -
- Prof. Turgay Celik - [Wits University]
Datasets
- AfricaNLP Zenodo Community
- African Pre-Trained Embeddings [NLP]
- Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for South Africa
- Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Data Repository for Africa
- Loughran McDonald-SA-2020 Sentiment Word List
- South African News Data
- South African Disinformation [Fake News] Website Data - 2020
- You can get a more exhaustive list of datasets here github.com/dsfsi/dsfsi-datasets
Software or Libraries
Data Donors
TBA
Initiatives
- CSIR-DSFSI-MMZA 2021 Municipal Election Social Media Monitoring Project
- Corona Virus, COVID 19 ZA Dashboard
- Masakhane NLP
- AI for Development: AI4D
- Deep Learning Indaba
- SautiYetu AfricanNLP Unconference
Partners
Support
The work of the research group is supported through chairs, fellowships, gifts and grants from:
- ABSA UP Chair of Data Science [2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023]
- Amazon Web Services Research Credit Grant [2018/2019]
- Google Cloud Platform Research Credit Grant [2019/2020/2021/2022/2023]
- Google Research [2022/2023]
- Facebook/Meta Grant [2020/2021]
- International Development Research Centre: IDRC [2020/2021/2022/2023]
- JP Morgan Chase [2022/2023]
- National Research Foundation [2018/2019/2020/2021/2022/2023]
- Mastercard Foundation [2018/2019/2020/2021]
- Medical Research Council [2020/2021]
- Mozilla Open Source Support [2020/2021]
Note: please get in touch with Prof Marivate [vukosi.marivate@cs.up.ac.za] if you would like to partner or look at ways to support ongoing research work.