Dr. Stephen Moore, a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Coast has received a Google research grant of $30,000 to continue research in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Dr. Stephen Moore, who is also a co-founder of Ghana Natural Language Processing (Ghana NLP), was given the grant to accelerate research in natural language processing (NLP) in low-resource languages in Ghana and Africa.
Since 2020, Dr. Moore and his colleagues at Ghana NLP have been developing tools for both text and speech translation of low-resource languages including Twi, Dagbani, Ewe, Ga, Guruni, and Igbo.
At the re-opening of Google’s new office in Accra, Ghana, in 2022, Dr. Moore presented the state of the art of NLP development in Ghana and the opportunities the country will gain by training and developing young people for the future.
He presented the first Ghanaian Language translator; Khaya, that has been launched by Ghana NLP together with Algorine (a partner company of Ghana NLP).
The app uses state-of-the-art language models from NLP with the ambition to create a unified translator for several languages in Africa.
Source: MyJoyOnline
