ctibenkana/african-nlp-research

NLP research for low-resource East African languages (Luganda & Lusoga) — fintech NLP for financial inclusion # African NLP Research Research notes, experiments, and projects focused on NLP for low-resource East African languages — Luganda and Lusoga. ## Research Focus > Building NLP systems for financial communication in low-resource East African languages to improve financial inclusion for unbanked mobile money users in Uganda. ## Structure ``` paper-notes/ # Weekly paper reading log (one file per paper) datasets/ # Dataset collection and annotation work (Phase 2) experiments/ # Training scripts and results (Phase 2) ``` ## Paper Reading Log | # | Paper | Year | Status | Notes | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers | 2019 | Reading | notes | ## Roadmap - [ ] Phase 0 (Apr–Jun 2026): Math foundations, Python, Git, community - [ ] Phase 1 (Jul–Aug 2026): PyTorch + HuggingFace fluency - [ ] Phase 2 (Sep–Oct 2026): Luganda/Lusoga NER dataset + models - [ ] Phase 3 (Nov–Dec 2026): Workshop paper submission + PhD applications ## Community - Masakhane — African NLP research community - AfricaNLP Workshop — Annual workshop at ICLR - ACL Anthology — All NLP papers free --- *Researcher: Uganda Christian University | MSc Data Science & Analytics*