New podcast by Wale Akinfaderin on AI for parliamentary documents in Nigerian

Adewale Akinfaderin
Adewale Akinfaderin

Wale Akinfaderin is a K4A grantee within the AI4D programme working on Predicting and Analyzing Law-Making in Kenya has delivered a podcast for an episode of “I Am Change” podcast series with Korede Azeez. The interview can be found on Soundcloud and Apple podcast.

The project proposes expanding a framework on categorizing parliamentary bills in Nigeria using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), document embedding and recurrent neural networks to three other countries in Africa: Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa.

His work was accepted at 4th Widening NLP Workshop, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020.

K4A grant to solve access to Nigeria’s legislative bills with AI

AI4D mini-grants presentations, Nairobi 2019
AI4D mini-grants presentations, Nairobi 2019

K4A grant recipients Adewale Akinfaderin, Olamilekan Wahab and Olubayo Adekanmb, are successfully using Artificial Intelligence to digitize parliamentary bills in Sub-Saharan Africa and Specifically in Nigeria. Read their recent interview in the Techpoint.Africa article.

HumaneAI interview series: Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

Ville Mäkelä, LMU München
Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

My blue sky project for AI is to make better humans, to improve the quality of life, to enable humans to do things that they perhaps couldn’t do before, to make people better than the best people out there currently.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR
Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

My bluesky project is to have the possibility of AI enhancing user experience.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

My bluesky project is to understand what is the interplay between huge amount of small pieces of AI, that work together to build a collective AI system.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

My bluesky project is to fund bottom-up research in order to make it robust and solve the problems we will face in the next years.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Sirko Straube, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

Sirko Straube, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Sirko Straube, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

My bluesky project is to really integrate AI into a society.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

My dream for the Human AI project is to build myself a colleague. I want AI to be my scientific colleague.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Janin Koch, Aalto University

Janin Koch, Aalto University
Janin Koch, Aalto University

My bluesky project is how do we actually do collaboration with machines but also within humans

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

HumaneAI interview series: Yvonne Rogers, University College London

Yvonne Rogers, University College London
Yvonne Rogers, University College London

My blue sky project is to think about how we can really make a difference to society by providing them with the way to do more complex decision making in a variety of domains and context.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#humancomputerinteraction #artificialintelligence  #videolectures