2025
Sunflower: Expanding African Language Coverage in LLMs
On extending large language model coverage to African languages that are poorly represented in existing training data and evaluation suites.
Publications
Peer-reviewed work
Five papers on natural language processing, speech and computer vision, all of them concerned in one way or another with making machine learning work for languages and settings that the field has largely overlooked.
5 publications 2 arXiv preprints 2 Springer 1 OpenReview
2025
Speech Data Requirements for ASR in African Languages
How much speech data automatic speech recognition actually needs in low-resource African language settings, and what that implies for anyone planning a collection effort.
2024
Real-Time Spoken Instruction & Translation in Ugandan Languages
Real-time spoken instruction and translation for Ugandan languages — the research thread that underpins the speech-to-speech translation work.
2023
Explainable AI for Black Sigatoka Detection
Making crop-disease classification interpretable, so that a farmer can see the basis for a diagnosis rather than being asked to trust an opaque model.
2023
Transparent Intelligent Vision for Black Sigatoka Detection
Computer vision for detecting Black Sigatoka in banana plantations, with transparency of the model's reasoning treated as a design requirement.
Elsewhere
- GitHub github.com/yigagilbert — code and experiments.
- Curriculum vitae Download the full CV (PDF).