Language technology / named entity recognitionAfrican language technologyParticipation documented
MasakhaNER
Nairobi, Kenya
Repository states dataset annotation was performed by volunteers from the Masakhane community using participatory research design.
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- Region
- Africa
- Lead organization
- Masakhane
- Organization type
- grassroots community network
- Technology group
- NLP / NER
- Activity status
- active
- Start year
- 2021
- Last updated
- Mar 25, 2026
- Participation mode
- volunteer annotation + community co-creation
- Participation group
- Community Led
- Technology description
- NLP / NER
- Funding
- Not documented
- Region of activity
- multi-country
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