RobotsMali Language Policy
RobotsMali Language Policy RobotsMali AI4D Lab is proud to announce that English and Mali’s national languages are now our primary working languages. French will be progressively phased out, though it will remain a “language of last resort” during the transition period as our staff and the broader Malian public shift toward greater use of English […]
Vers Une Littérature Enfantine Moderne en Bambara: La Collection GAIFE
Vers Une Littérature Enfantine Moderne en Bambara: La Collection GAIFE Authors: Nouhoum Souleymane COULIBALY | RobotsMali AI4D Lab, Bamako, Mali, research@robotsmali.org Au Mali la Lecture s’implante au Sein de la Communauté Dans le quartier Baco Djicoroni ACI à Bamako, M. Abdoulaye COULIBALY a créé un petit club de lecture avec les livres de la collection […]
The Serendipity of Claude AI : Case of the 13 low-resource national languages of Mali
The Serendipity of Claude AI : Case of the 13 Low-Resource National Languages of Mali Authors: By Alou DEMBELE, Nouhoum Souleymane COULIBALY, Michael LEVENTHAL RobotsMali AI4D Lab, Bamako, Mali, research@robotsmali.org Keywordsnational language – Artificial Intelligence – Education – Claude AI – Low-resource languages - Linguistic technologies. Abstract Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural […]
AI, Illiteracy, and Written Language in Mali
AI, Illiteracy, and Written Language in Mali Nouhoum Coulibaly, Alou Dembele, Michael Leventhal | RobotsMali AI4D Lab | Bamako, Mali | research@robotsmali.org Abstract This paper examines the potential contribution of AI to reducing extreme rates of illiteracy in Mali, taking as its point of departure research that has demonstrated that education exclusively in French, a […]
Intention is All You Need : NLP for the Rest of World
Intention is All You Need : NLP for the Rest of World This is the story of a home-grown machine translation initiative working on an under-resourced language in a near-zero resource environment, equipped with the bare minimum of science but intimate knowledge of our languages and communities and the desire to perform miracles. We have […]








