The Politics of Memory: NLP Models as Liberating Artifacts

The main argument of this article is that natural language processing (NLP) projects of Indigenous African languages can be understood as an effort to restore and preserve Africa’s memory in the digital. Language has always occupied a particular place in the African decolonial imaginary. Several Afr...

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Published in:	Science, technology & society (New Delhi, India) Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 517 - 534
Main Author:	Hassan, Yousif
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi, India SAGE Publications 01-12-2024 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	African languages Decolonization Memory Science and technology Africa science and technology studies natural language processing Artificial intelligence Africa decolonisation
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