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Research collaboration
Joint research, benchmarks and open contributions with institutions
We work with universities, labs and institutions on joint studies, benchmarks and publications that move African language technology forward. Our research has been peer-reviewed and recognised at ACL, and we added 62 new languages to Common Crawl's web languages project.
What we offer
We partner with universities, research labs, foundations and institutions on research that moves African language technology forward. We bring language data, expert networks, evaluation capacity and a track record of peer-reviewed work. You bring the questions, the domain knowledge and the reach.
Joint studies and co-authored publications.
Benchmarks and evaluation datasets for African languages.
Grant-funded programmes and multi-partner initiatives.
Fellowships and mentoring for early-career researchers.
Contributions to shared resources, such as our work with Common Crawl.
Our track record
Peer-reviewed research at ACL 2026, covering 40 languages, 19B tokens and 12,628 hours of speech.
Gains of +23.69 ChrF++, +0.33 COMET and +15.34 BLEU across 31 languages.
15 early-career researchers mentored through our collaborations.
62 new languages added to Common Crawl's web languages project.
Published work on multilingual evaluation and on the Ghanaian NLP landscape.
Who it is for
Universities and research labs, funders and foundations, multilateral and public institutions, and industry research teams working on language, inclusion or AI in Africa.
Let's talk
Share your research question or programme idea, and we will explore how our data, experts and team can support it.
