Adaoraadore-ah Mbanefomm-bah-neh-fo
No language should be left out of the technologies shaping the future.
Hi, I'm Adaora! I'm an undergraduate studying statistics, linguistics, and computer science. I'm into NLP/NLU, machine learning, and AI engineering. Outside the lab I love to read fantasy, play electric guitar and squash, and keep a running list of words I love in languages I'm still learning.
Interests
What I'm thinking about
My research lives in NLP/NLU and computational linguistics. Right now I study how children enter multiparty conversation, using transformers to measure linguistic alignment in daylong recordings. go to research →
What has a language model actually learned, and where can you see it? Who do these models harm, and how do you reduce that harm without erasing the people you're trying to protect? And how do you build models that work for the languages they were never built for? Those are the questions I want to answer.
topics
Motivation
Africa shouldn't be left behind
Most of the AI deployed today is trained on Western data. It can be used by Africans. It doesn't represent or understand them.
The technical divide between the African continent and the rest of the world is widening fast, especially in AI and language technology. But it isn't about talent. Africa has brilliant people, researchers, and builders, and the infrastructure is being built. What's missing is access. So much information isn't available in the languages people speak, and most African languages don't have the data a model would need to fix that.
That's the gap I want to help close. I'm African, and I know this continent intimately, but not completely. So I want to work alongside the people who are already doing just that, using tools and research built with African data, languages, contexts, and people in mind. see the projects →