Muhammad AbdulMageed
@mageed
Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Director of @UBC Deep Learning & NLP Group.
I’m delighted to share this Medium post, reflecting on a multi-year journey towards building AI and NLP solutions that truly center African languages and communities. Despite Africa’s extraordinary linguistic diversity—with over 2,000 languages—the continent’s languages have…
📢 Check out the accepted ACL 2025 papers from the UBC NLP group! We look forward to presenting them in Vienna! #ACL2025 #NLProc
📢 AraHealthQA 2025 - Track 1 (MentalQA) Prizes! 🏆 @_ArabicNLP Submit your system description paper for a chance to win: 🥇 1000 SAR 🥈 600 SAR 🥉 300 SAR CodaBench: codabench.org/competitions/8… Dataset: github.com/hasanhuz/Menta… #NLP #ArabicNLP #LLM #Health #AI
UBC NLP & Vision at #CVPR2025. Vision, language, and everything in between.
📢Call for Participation: New shared task at @_ArabicNLP (co-located with @emnlpmeeting). AraHealthQA 2025: Bridging the gap in Arabic medical question answering for LLMs, focusing on general & mental health. Details! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/arahea…… #NLP #ArabicNLP #LLM #Health #AI
📢Call for Participation: New shared task at @_ArabicNLP (co-located with @emnlpmeeting). AraHealthQA 2025: Bridging the gap in Arabic medical question answering for LLMs, which focus on general & mental health. Details! sites.google.com/nyu.edu/arahea… #NLP #ArabicNLP #LLM #Health #AI
ArabicNLP 2025 welcomes work on text, speech, vision & multimodal AI. 🎧 ASR/TTS folks — bring your speech tech 🖼️ OCR, captioning, CLIP? We want you ✍️ Multimodal LLMs in Arabic? This is your venue #ArabicNLP
يشرفنا استقبال بحوثكم في ميادين النص والصوت والصورة والذكاء متعدد الوسائط. 🎧 أصحاب تقنيات التعرف الصوتي وتوليده - أَثْروا مؤتمرنا بإبداعاتكم 🖼️ مطوِّرو قراءة النصوص البصرية وتوصيف الصور - ميدانكم هنا ✍️ مبدعو النماذج اللغوية العربية متعددة الوسائط - هذا منبركم #ِArabicNLP2025
🚀 🚀 The second release day in a row, also for Africa! Thrilled to announce release of our Cheetah 1.2B text-to-text Transformer model. Enables state-of-the-art African language generation across 517 languages. 🎊 🎊 Original paper: aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.… Paper describing…