We invite submissions of a poster for an African Dataset for the Deep Learning Indaba in 2024. Submissions are limited to only selected attendees who wish to make a presentation during the Research in Africa Showcase Day, a few selected datasets will also be asked to give a 15 Minutes presentation about their African Dataset during the Research in Africa Showcase Day.

Submission of the African Dataset Abstract and Poster is to be done using the DLI 2024 registration form that will be shared with accepted participants.

Submission Deadline: 7 August 2024

African Datasets Session Schedule

Time

Speaker

Title

14:00

Jonathan Mukiibi

The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus: A Luganda Radio Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition

14:10

Seid Muhie Yimam

Sentiment and Hate Speech datasets for more than 14 African languages

14:20

Tejumade Afonja

CHOWNET: A Nigerian Food Dataset

14:30

Panel Session:

  • Tejumande Afonja
  • Shamsuddeen Muhammad
  • Lillian Wanzare
  • Mansour Gueye

Moderator: Refiloe Shabe

Panel Discussions

15:20

Jenalea Rajab

IsiXhosa Community Dataset

15:30

Sunday Ajagbe

YorMed: A Yoruba Medical Corpus

15:40

Gideon George

TangaleNLP

15:50

Shamsuddeen Muhammad

Afrihate

16:00

Paul Kennedy

Datasets on Zindi
16:10 Lilian Wanzare Kenya Sign Language Dataset