Create a NER tagger for African languages
Please read the topic categorydescriptionto understand what this is all aboutDescriptionAfrica has over 2,000 spoken languages, but these languages are massively underrepresented in NLP research and datasets. The goal of this project is to train strong models for the MasakhaNER corpus, which is a high quality dataset for named entity recognition in 10 African languages.Model(s)There are a few popular multilingual models that you can start with:xlm-roberta-basebert-base-multilingual-uncasedDatasetsmasakhanerChallengesIt is unlikely that all ten languages in MasakhaNER are represented in multiingual models like XLM-R or mBERT, so some decisions will be need to be made on which subsets to focus on.Desired project outcomesCreate a Streamlit or Gradio app onSpacesthat can take text from one or more of the languages in MasakhaNER and extract the person names (PER), organizations (ORG), locations (LOC) and dates & time (DATE) tags.Don’t forget to push all your models and datasets to the Hub so others can build on them!Additional resourcesMasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African LanguagesDiscord channelTo chat and organise with other people interested in this project, head over to ourDiscordand:Follow the instructions on the#join-coursechannelJoin theafrican-nerchannelJust make sure you comment here to indicate that you’ll be contributing to this projectTeam organization on the HubTo join this team, make sure you join the following organisation on the Hub:team-african-ner (🤗 Course Team African NER)
2021-11-13T07:13:35Z
I am interested in this project, don’t know African languages, but would be delighted to create something useful for the community, Count me in!
2021-11-13T19:35:02Z
Great to hear that you’re interested in this project@seanbenhur! I’ve created a Discord channel (info in the topic description) in case you and others want to use it to coordinate
2021-11-14T16:58:37Z
Hey@seanbenhur, I’ve created an organisation on the Hub for your team so that you can push your models there and deploy your Streamlit / Gradio applicationSee the topic description for the link (I’ve already send you an invite)
2021-11-15T04:30:57Z
Thank you!