Thank you to everyone that entered this most recent round of the African language dataset challenge! We are please to announce the winners of this round. Congra... See more

Hi Zindians,We want to encourage everyone to make your submissions. We have had very few submission (in fact we have no submissions yet for South Africa or Ghan... See more

Hi there @zindi,Is it possible to create a team and submit to this competition. I'veread that new team members cannot be added in the last 5 days before a compe... See more

@zindi please if am submitting multiple datasets as a single zip file, how do I Indicate it in the documentation; and how do I give each of the datasets a uniqu... See more

@Zindi is it a must that that data should be .txt during submission or it can be a .csv or .tsv to show translation from English to indigenous language?

will datasets collected from religious book be consider as part of the competition.

Congratulations to the winners, didelani from Nigeria and avt_nyanja from Malawi!On the Info page, a Winners page has been added. You will be able to follow the... See more

Hi there. I was thinking about the process of this competition. While I can see that only some datasets will be considered winning entries, I think it will be u... See more

Greetings to you @zindi; Please I want to know the criteria and metrics for selecting a winner for this competition because as far as am concerned; I have subm... See more

Congratulations to the winners, Davisy from Tanzania and poppingtonic from Kenya!On the Info page, a Winners page has been added. You will be able to follow the... See more

Congratulations to the winners, Team Takwimu Lab from Benin and Togo and Icompass from Tunisia!On the Info page, a Winners page has been added. You will be able... See more

Congratulations to the winners, didelani from Nigeria and CapitainData from Benin!Read more about the datasets on the AI4D blog post. On the Info page, a Winner... See more

We have been impressed by the submissions that have been coming in. Please continue to submit!If you are a bit stuck or looking for inspiration, head over to th... See more

I have a confusion on what was ask to do.I collected some data set on hausa names and I don't know if it's counts, and also should I translate them to English l... See more

What is the maximum number of sentence in each data set

Can/should the submissions include parallel text of some selected source -> target (where target is the African language)? From your description I assume tha... See more

Congratulations to the winners, Ambassador Thierno from Senegal and TheRiddler from Nigeria!You can read about the datasets in AI4D's blog post here!On the Info... See more

For multiple languages must i have different data for each and documentation for each

Hausa language is one of the languages widely spoken languages in West Africa ( e.g., Nigeria, Ghana, and Niger). Is it part of the challenge, please?

We only have one submission for this month so far. Let us know if you have any challenges or questions.

Does, Nigeria (or Ghanian) English for example qualify as a language that is underrepresented on the internet? Would a crawled corpus in this languages be accep... See more

Hello, is speech recognition data accepted in this competition. whe the dataset is only composed of audio and their corresponding text.

Hi,The only submission method is upload. This would make the work particularly hard for people with limited access to internet. Can we have an option where you... See more