CMU-Africa
CMU-Africa NLP
Research Group
Natural Language Processing · CMU-Africa · Kigali

Advancing NLP Research
Across African Contexts

We are an interdisciplinary research group at Carnegie Mellon University Africa, focused on developing language technologies that reflect the linguistic diversity and academic ambitions of the African continent.

23 Researchers
3+ Active Projects
5 Target Venues
2025 Founded
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African MT Models
Swahili · Yoruba · Kinyarwanda
#LowResource #NMT #ACL2026
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LLM Interpretability
Mechanistic Analysis · Transformers
#Transformers #EMNLP
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Our projects span several core areas of natural language processing, with a focus on African language technology and responsible AI development.

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Multilingual & Multimodal NLP

Developing high-performance machine translation, speech processing, code-switching detection, and African sign language video encoders optimized for resource-constrained contexts.

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Responsible AI, Safety & Evaluation

Auditing LLM judges, benchmarking cultural sensitivity and gender bias, mitigating deceptive behaviors, and exploring AI safety frameworks across the African continent.

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NLP Applications

Deploying language technologies for high-impact social domains, including dementia detection models, caregivers' communication assistants, and grounded personalization.

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Efficient & Green AI

Optimizing model resource footprints and saving energy by engineering parameter-elastic neurons and extreme compression algorithms for Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs).

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Mechanistic Interpretability

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