XexFlare/africaai-news-xpo

AI Hybrid NLP pipeline for African news extraction using BERT-based NER models and spaCy validation, with MLflow experiment tracking and Gradio interfaces for interactive testing, monitoring, and iterative model improvement. # 🌍 Africa AI News Xpo **Africa AI News Xpo** is an NLP-driven extraction pipeline designed to transform unstructured African news content into structured, actionable intelligence. Built as part of the **AI Age ecosystem**, this project explores how modern AI systems can monitor, extract, and organize information from regional news sources in real time. --- ## 🧠 Overview Across Africa, valuable insights are buried in unstructured news articles — spanning markets, policy, agriculture, infrastructure, and innovation. This project focuses on: - Extracting key entities from news articles - Structuring information into usable formats - Enabling downstream analytics and decision-making At its core, the system combines **Named Entity Recognition (NER)** with validation layers to ensure reliability and usability. --- ## ⚙️ Core Features - 🧾 **News Ingestion** - Pulls articles from selected African news sources - Processes raw text for downstream analysis - 🧠 **NER-Based Extraction** - Identifies entities such as: - Organizations - Locations - Key individuals - Events and topics - Built using transformer-based NLP models - 🧩 **Hybrid Validation Layer** - Combines model outputs with rule-based logic - Improves consistency and reduces noise - 📊 **Structured Output** - Converts raw articles into structured data - Enables filtering, analysis, and downstream use - 🧪 **Experimentation & Iteration** - Designed for metric-driven improvement - Supports testing different extraction strategies - 🖥️ **Interactive Demo (Gradio)** - Allows users to paste or test articles - Visualizes extracted entities in real time --- ## 🧱 Architecture News Sources → Text Processing → NER Model → Validation Layer → Structured Output --- ## 🎯 Use Cases - 📈 Market intelligence from regional news - 🏛️ Policy and regulatory monitoring - 🌾 Agriculture and commodity tracking - 🏗️ Infrastructure and development insights - 🌍 Regional trend analysis --- ## 🚀 Demo 👉 africanews.ai …