AfroLID
VerifiedA neural language identification toolkit that detects which of 517 African languages and varieties a text belongs to across 14 language families, reaching 97.41 macro-F1 after fine-tuning on SERENGETI. Developed by the UBC Deep Learning and NLP Lab and published at EMNLP 2022.
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- Free for research use
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- 🌍 Pan-African
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- 10 Jul 2026
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