My research focuses on natural language processing for low resource languages particularly for African languages. This includes developing language resources and tools to aid automatic processing of human languages.

I’m also interested in language policy as I believe it is an important step to aid the development of low resource languages.

Natural Language Processing

Machine Translation

Language Policy

• SERENGETI: Massively Multilingual Language Models for Africa
  Adebara, I., & Elmadany, A. & Abdul-Mageed, M., & Alcides, A. (2023). Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. ACL.
• AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages
  Adebara, I., & Elmadany, A. & Abdul-Mageed, M., & Alcides, A. (2022). Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). ACL.
• Towards Afrocentric NLP for African Languages: Where We Are and Where We Can Go.
  Adebara, I., & Abdul-Mageed, M., (2022). In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. ACL.
• Linguistically-Motivated Yoruba-English Machine Translation.
  Adebara, I., & Abdul-Mageed, M., (2022). Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). ACL.
• Improving Similar Language Translation With Transfer Learning.
  Adebara, I., & Abdul-Mageed, M., (2021). In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on
  Machine Translation. (Best Model)

• Faculty of Arts Graduate Entrance Award. (2018).
• Tina and Morris Wagner Foundation Fellowship. (2019).
• Department of Linguistics Graduate Award (2020), UBC.
• Edna Dharmaratne Award (2020), UBC.
• Public Scholars Award (2021 and 2022), UBC.
• Black-In-AI (Travel Grant) (2022). Black in AI.
• President’s Academic Excellence Initiative Ph.D. Award (2020-2023), UBC.
• Public Scholars Award (2021-2023). UBC.
• Global Top 100 Outstanding AI (2022-2023). IRCAI under the auspices of UNESCO

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed