Data Science for Social Impact
@DSFSI_Research
Data Science for Social Impact research group in the CS Department, U of Pretoria, @UPTuks. @ircai_unesco NAIXUS PI: @vukosi LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/dsfsi
📣 The official press release for #DLI2025 is here! We’re heading to Kigali to connect 1000+ brilliant minds shaping the future of AI in Africa 🌍 Read more about what’s coming: 🔗deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2025/07/p… #Indaba2025 #Urunana
We were happy to collaborate on this #ACL2025 contribution
BRIGHTER: multi-labeled datasets in 28 languages from 7 distinct families for emotion in #NLProc collected and annotated by native speakers to be presented today at #ACL2025 Session 9: IP-Orals – Resources and Evaluation 2 pm Hall B.
I'm pleased to announce the proceedings of AfricaNLP 2025 are now live! These are the first archival proceedings for AfricaNLP. Thank you to the authors and to @davlanade for making this happen! aclanthology.org/volumes/2025.a… #AfricaNLP #ACL2025NLP
We will be at #ACL2025 for a flurry of activities, presenting two papers detailing our latest research in both Arabic and African NLP, participating in two panels to share insights, and delivering a keynote to address key developments in the field. Looking forward to engaging…
🗣️✍🏽 DSFSI at #ACL2025! We’re proud to contribute to four new papers on NLP: 🔁 Code-switching (AfroCS-xs) 📚 Hausa NLP survey 🌈 Emotion datasets (BRIGHTER) 📜 Ethical licensing (Esethu Framework) Read the full post: dsfsi.co.za/blog/ACL2025/ #AfricanNLP
A great collaboration of @jpmorgan AI and @DSFSI_Research at #ACL2025 . Thank you @a11byte for the collaboration.
🇦🇹 Omw to Vienna for ACL @aclmeeting ! Happy to chat about multilingual NLP, personalization and applications in finance. Also, our team is hiring :) PS. I'll co-present a poster: "AfroCS-xs: Human-Validated Code-Switched Dataset for African Languages" aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.…
The recording of Prof Judy Gichoya’s seminar “Shortcut Learning for Medical AI: Opportunity or Threat” is now live! Learn why shortcut learning matters for health AI in Africa & beyond, and what we can do about it. Watch: youtu.be/giaDbLzMbMo
📢 Excited to share our new publication: "Why technology needs artists"! Explore how artists drive tech advancement. 📖 This new report features 56 leaders from across 24 countries and five continents, read it here: britishcouncil.org/research-insig… @BritishArts
Proud to contribute to Why Technology Needs Artists: 40 International Perspectives 🎨🤖 In my piece "Beyond the Symbols", I reflect on why AI must engage culture, language & lived experience—not just data & GPUs. Read the full publication 👉britishcouncil.org/research-insig…
📢 Excited to share our new publication: "Why technology needs artists"! Explore how artists drive tech advancement. 📖 This new report features 56 leaders from across 24 countries and five continents, read it here: britishcouncil.org/research-insig… @BritishArts
My great grandfather. Passed on a few years after I was born. The work we do connected to African languages is intertwined with the history of my family. Stay tuned l!
Daniel Cornel Marivate (1897-1989) was a South African writer, composer, educator who wrote the first Xitsonga novel Sasavona. The physician Dr Charles Daniel Marivate and academic C.T.D Marivate were his sons.
Will AI wipe out programmer jobs in SA? Not so simple. On @POWER987News with @MbuyiseniNdlozi, I discussed why AI tools can help, but local context, language & problem-solving still need people. We need to build African AI, not just fear change. Listen: omny.fm/shows/powertal…
We’re making UP research accessible in Sepedi, isiZulu, & Afrikaans! Launching the Translation of Abstracts Project: real collaboration + AI, real impact. Event: 12 Aug, 09:00–12:00, Javett Auditorium/Online. Details: dsfsi.co.za/blog/library-d… RSVP: up-za.libcal.com/event/14796230
