# Swahili NLP - Introductions

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**Created:** [February 21, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fswahili-nlp-introductions%2F3792 "2021-02-21T13:19:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wambui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ac8455/32.png) [@Wambui](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FWambui)%5C
**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fswahili-nlp-introductions%2F3792%2F1 "2021-02-21T13:19:16Z")

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This is the introduction thread for Swahili NLP enthusiasts.

Welcome, and please feel free to introduce yourself with any of the following:

- Your name, Github, Hugging Face, and/or Twitter handle
- Your interest in Swahili NLP
- Some projects you are working on or interested in starting
- Any other languages that you speak, any personal interests, or anything else

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**Author:** ![Davis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/davis/32/1085_2.png) [@Davis](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FDavis)%5C
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 6:33am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fswahili-nlp-introductions%2F3792%2F2 "2021-02-23T06:33:17Z")

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Hello  
My name is Davis David from Tanzania. I’m happy to be here.

My current project is creating a Swahili news dataset supported by AI4D. The train set is currently available in the hugging Face package called “datasets”.

Github Username: Davisy  
Twitter handle @Davis\_McDavid

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**Author:** ![yjernite](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/yjernite/32/2239_2.png) [@yjernite](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fyjernite)%5C
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fswahili-nlp-introductions%2F3792%2F3 "2021-02-23T14:57:59Z")

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Welcome @Davis !

Adding a link to the dataset you mentioned for reference 😉

> **[swahili\_news · Datasets at Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/swahili_news)**
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> We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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**Author:** ![Davis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/davis/32/1085_2.png) [@Davis](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FDavis)%5C
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fswahili-nlp-introductions%2F3792%2F4 "2021-02-23T19:18:21Z")

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Thanks for the reference.🙏🙏🙏