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Talks, media coverage, papers and milestones. Items are usually submitted by the people involved, since members are based in many countries and news is otherwise reported separately in each.

conference 25 February 2025

EthioNLP at LT4All 2025 and deRSE 2025

Poster: Advancing Language Technology for Ethiopia’s Diverse Linguistic Landscape through the EthioNLP Collaborative Effort, presented at LT4All 2025 at UNESCO in Paris (24 to 26 February) and at deRSE 2025 in Karlsruhe (25 to 27 February).

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media 1 February 2025

EthioNLP featured on Voice of America

Seid Muhie Yimam was interviewed by Voice of America about EthioNLP, taking Ethiopian-language NLP to a general audience. No public recording of the segment has been found, so the link below is the research group’s own announcement rather than the broadcast.

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conference 1 September 2024

EthioNLP at the Deep Learning Indaba

Members of EthioNLP attended the Deep Learning Indaba and presented their latest work alongside the wider African machine-learning community.

publication 20 May 2024

EthioLLM presented at LREC-COLING 2024

EthioLLM: Multilingual Large Language Models for Ethiopian Languages with Task Evaluation was presented at LREC-COLING 2024. It released multilingual models for five Ethiopian languages, Amharic, Ge’ez, Afan Oromo, Somali and Tigrinya, plus English, togethe...

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