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23 Jan 26

General AI, Musical Heritage and Peace Narratives in Mali | RobotsMali

General AI, Musical Heritage and Peace Narratives in Mali | RobotsMali New Publication Generative Artificial Intelligence, Musical Heritage and the Construction of Peace Narratives: A Case Study in Mali We are lighted to announce the availability of the preprint for our article « Generative Artificial Intelligence, Musical Heritage and the Construction of Peace Narratives: A Case [...]

26 Nov 25

African Next Voices: RobotsMali Releases Major Bambara Dataset, Models & Research Tools

African Next Voices: Major Bambara Dataset Release | RobotsMali AI4D Lab Research Release African Next Voices Major Bambara Dataset, Models, Human Evaluation, and Codes 612 Hours of Speech 18 African Languages 9,000 Target Hours RobotsMali AI4D Lab has released a major dataset of 612 hours of Bambara speech data along with transcriptions, fine-tuned models, evaluation [...]

25 Nov 25

AI for Education Summit Nairobi

AI for Education Summit Nairobi RobotsMali AI4D Lab proudly announces its successful participation in the impactful AI for Education Summit held in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 11th to 13th, 2025. Organized by FabAI and the Gates Foundation at Hyatt Place, the summary agreed key stakeholders to address the critical challenges in EdTech implementation across the [...]

04 Nov 25

Notes on Automata Processing

Notes on Automata Processing Author: Michael Leventhal, Principal Investigator — RobotsMali AI4D Lab Institution: RobotsMali AI4D Lab RobotsMali AI4D Lab Principal Investigator, Michael Leventhal, has placed his Notes on Automata Processing, in the public domain. Notes on Automata Processing is a collection of notes recorded between 2010 and 2014 on the computing paradigm he developed [...]

04 Nov 25

Cost Analysis of Human-corrected Transcript for Predominacy Oral Languages

Cost Analysis of Human-Corrected Transcript for Predominate Oral Languages Authors: Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Coulibaly, and Michael Leventhal Affiliation: RobotsMali AI4D Lab — robotsmali.org Published: October 2025 Abstract Creating speech datasets for low-resource languages is a critical yet somewhat understood challenge, especially looking at the human cost of producing high-quality annotated data.This study focuses on Bambara, a [...]

06 May 25

🧠 RobotsMali AI4D Lab at NAACL 2025

🧠 RobotsMali AI4D Lab at NAACL 2025 We have proven to share that RobotsMali AI4D Lab researchers have published a paper on the use of Generative AI to create books in Bambara in the Findings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025) — one of the [...]

23 Apr 25

RobotsMali AI4D Lab Press Release

RobotsMali AI4D Lab Press Release RobotsMali AI4D Lab, Mali

04 Mar 25

Towards a Modern Children's Literature in Bambara: The GAIFE Collection

Towards a Modern Children's Literature in Bambara: The GAIFE Collection Authors: Nouhoum Souleymane COULIBALY | RobotsMali AI4D Lab, Bamako, Mali, research@robotsmali.org In Mali, Reading is implanted in the Community's Sein In the Baco Djicoroni ACI neighbourhood of Bamako, Mr Abdoulaye COULIBALY has created a small book club with the books of the [...]

03 Mar 25

The Serendipity of Claude AI : Case of the 13 low-resource national languages of Mali

The Serendipity of Claude AI : Case of the 13 Low-Resource National Languages of Mali Authors: By Alou DEMBELE, Nouhoum Souleymane COULIBALY, Michael LEVENTHAL RobotsMali AI4D Lab, Bamako, Mali, research@robotsmali.org Keywordsnational language – Artificial Intelligence – Education – Claude AI – Low-resource languages - Linguistic technologies. Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural [...]

28 Feb 25

AI, Illiteracy, and Writen Language in Mali

AI, Illiteracy, and Writen Language in Mali Nouhoum Coulibaly, Alou Dembele, Michael Leventhal | RobotsMali AI4D Lab | Bamako, Mali | research@robotsmali.org Abstract This paper reviews the potential contribution of AI to reducing extreme rates of illliteracy in Mali, taking as its point of departure research that has demonstrated that education exclusively in French, a [...]