Academics

Papers

Published

Consultative engagement of stakeholders toward a roadmap for African language technologies (August, 2023)

ÌròyìnSpeech: A multi-purpose Yorùbá Speech Corpus (August, 2023)

"An overview of the British Library Yorùbá Language Collection" (October 2022) in Africa Bibliography, Research and Documentation. Cambridge University Press.

Developing an Open-Source Corpus of Yoruba Speech (Google Research link here) co-written paper accepted to Interspeech 2020 in Shanghai. October 2020

Improving Yorùbá Diacritic Restoration (pdf here) co-written paper accepted to the ICLR 2020 African NLP Workshop April 26, 2020

The Web Alternative, Dimensions of Literacy, and Newer Prospects for African Languages in Today’s World. [“L’alternativa web, els aspectes de l’alfabetització i les perspectives més recents de les llengües africanes en el món actual.”] (pdf) in 2018 Linguapax review

Lexicography as Documentation: The Example of YorubaName.com | accepted for publication in Contemporary Studies in African Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Professor Lendzemo Constantine Yuka (2020).

Upcoming

“Digital Identity in Yorùbá Naming” in The Cultural Politics of Names and Naming (2024) ed. Stanisław Kordasiewicz, Gwyneira Isaac, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, Sylvia Ngo, & Kyunney Takasaeva. Routledge Taylor & Francis. Open Access

“Yorùbá and Unicode: An Overview of a Problem” (2023) AfricaNLP Workshop at ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations)

New Directions in Yorùbá Orthography for Modern Creative Writing| accepted for presentation at the SCOLMA Conference 2020

Translation Liminality: What We Lose in Yorùbá Print Poetry in Translation | accepted for presentation at the Cadbury Conference 2020

Books

Edo North: Field Studies of the Languages and Lands of the Northern Edo (co-edited, 2011) Essays in Honour of Professor Ben O. Elugbe. Zenith Book House.