Thank you for visiting HausaNLP open community project repository.

Website: https://hausanlp.github.io
Email: [email protected]

This document (the README file) is a hub to give you some information about Hausa-NLP project. Jump straight to one of the sections below, or just scroll down to find out more.

• The problem
• The solution-what are we doing?
• How can you get involved?
• Latest Hausa papers by HausaNLP and collaborators
• Hausa Language Resource
• Meeting Notes
• Contact us
• Glossary

Hausa is an Afroasiatic language related to Arabic, Hebrew, Berber, Amharic, and Somali, amongst others. Hausa rivals the Swahili language as the most important language on the African continent. Hausa is ranked as the 27th most spoken language in the world. It is spoken by an estimated 64 million people as a first and second language. Most Hausa speakers live in Nigeria and the Southern Republic of Niger. The language is also spoken in other African countries such as the Benin Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Togo, and Sudan.

Despite Hausa being the second most spoken language in Africa, there are no language resources for Hausa natural language processing. We take the first step to breaking this digital divide by creating an open resource for the Hausa language.

We are an open community of academics, researchers, students, ML-engineers, and NLP enthusiasts with a passion for Hausa natural language processing. We aim to democratise Hausa-NLP by developing Hausa language resources, promoting Hausa natural language processing research, and fostering collaboration among relevant stakeholders.

If you think you can help in any way (and we're sure you can) or in any of the many areas we haven't yet thought of (and we're sure you can), please feel free to reach us via our email: [email protected]

• Idris Abdulmumin, Bashir Shehu Galadanci (2019). hauWE: Hausa Words Embedding for Natural Language Processing.

• Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi Fasubaa, Tajudeen Kolawole, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddee Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo, Salomey Osei, others (2020). Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Check our Awesome-Hausa-NLP

If you want to report a problem or suggest an enhancement we'd love for you to open an issue at this github repository because then we can get right on it. But you can also contact us by email (hausanlp AT gmail DOT com) or on twitter.

Thank you so much (mun gode!) for visiting the project and we do hope that you'll join us on this amazing journey to support Hausa natural language processing.

• Hausa: Hausa is a Chadic language spoken by the Hausa people, mainly within the territories of Niger and the northern half of Nigeria, and with significant minorities in Chad, Ghana, and Cameroon.
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