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+Thiomi is a research and engineering effort focused on closing the gap between major African languages and the NLP infrastructure that exists for English. We build:
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+- **Datasets** — community-collected text and speech corpora for languages that aren't well represented in public scraped data
+- **Models** — morphological analyzers, ASR systems, and translation models trained on those corpora, with the architectures and recipes that work best for each language family
+- **Methods** — open recipes for cross-lingual transfer, zero-shot morphological discovery, and other techniques that let small target datasets do useful work
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+Most of our published artifacts focus on Bantu languages (Swahili, Kikuyu, Zulu, Kongo, and others), but our broader work also covers Cushitic, Nilotic, and West African languages. The artifacts we ship here on HuggingFace are the ones that are mature enough to be useful to other researchers and practitioners.
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