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Cette région étant restée en marge des grands états d&apos;Afrique de l&apos;ouest, le problème des sources, classique en Afrique subsaharienne, y est particulièrement aigu, d&apos;autant que le centre de gravité du pays hausa est situé au Nigeria. Le travail commence par un état des lieux de cette question des sources. Il résume l&apos;histoire des différentes entités hausas de l&apos;espace nigérien. Enfin, il revient sur quelques grandes questions : l&apos;origine des Hausas, le développement des cités-états, le commerce, l&apos;islamisation, l’esclavage.		</description>		<dc:date>2021-11-12T12:03:08Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/10/masakhaner_named_entity_recogn">		<title>MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages | MIT Press</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/10/masakhaner_named_entity_recogn</link>		<dc:date>2021-10-14T16:41:22Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/10/kelechi_sur_twitter_excited_">		<title>Kelechi sur Twitter : &quot;Excited to present AfriBERTa, a multilingual LM pretrained from scratch on 11 African languages with a joint corpus of less than 1GB.&quot;</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/10/kelechi_sur_twitter_excited_</link>		<dc:date>2021-10-11T22:37:54Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/08/masakhane_using_ai_to_bring_af">		<title>Masakhane: Using AI to Bring African Languages Into the Global Conversation</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/08/masakhane_using_ai_to_bring_af</link>		<dc:date>2021-08-26T15:07:12Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/08/ai_in_africa_teaching_a_bot_to">		<title>AI in Africa: Teaching a bot to read my mum&apos;s texts - BBC News (2020)</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/08/ai_in_africa_teaching_a_bot_to</link>		<dc:date>2021-08-26T14:59:45Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/08/2010_02353_participatory_rese">		<title>[2010.02353&#93; Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/08/2010_02353_participatory_rese</link>		<description>about machine translation using parallel corpora only		</description>		<dc:date>2021-08-25T17:01:12Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/07/davlan_david_adelani_hugging">		<title>Davlan (David Adelani) @Huggingface</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/07/davlan_david_adelani_hugging</link>		<description>includes a [roberta-base-finetuned-hausa&#93;(https://huggingface.co/Davlan/xlm-roberta-base-finetuned-hausa) (using data from [CC-100: Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data&#93;(doc:2021/07/cc_100_monolingual_datasets_fr))		</description>		<dc:date>2021-07-29T00:01:52Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/07/2103_11811_masakhaner_named_">		<title>[2103.11811&#93; MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/07/2103_11811_masakhaner_named_</link>		<dc:date>2021-07-06T13:08:36Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/06/1906_05685_a_focus_on_neural_">		<title>[1906.05685&#93; A Focus on Neural Machine Translation for African Languages</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/06/1906_05685_a_focus_on_neural_</link>		<dc:date>2021-06-30T01:03:36Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/06/masakhane">		<title>Masakhane</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/06/masakhane</link>		<description>A grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans. 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It consists in converting 5 bilingual African language-French dictionaries originally in Word format into XML following the LMF model. The languages processed are Bambara, Hausa, Kanuri, Tamajaq and Songhai-zarma, still considered as under-resourced languages concerning Natural Language Processing tools.		</description>		<dc:date>2021-06-30T00:33:09Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/06/hausanlp_research_group">		<title>HausaNLP Research Group</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2021/06/hausanlp_research_group</link>		<dc:date>2021-06-30T00:24:43Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2019/09/machine_translation_for_african">		<title>Machine Translation for African Languages</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2019/09/machine_translation_for_african</link>		<dc:date>2019-09-02T00:53:25Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2019/09/jade_abbott_sur_twitter_call">		<title>Jade Abbott sur Twitter : &quot;Calling all African NLPers! Goal: Let&apos;s publish a paper with NMT baselines for all African languages Slides</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2019/09/jade_abbott_sur_twitter_call</link>		<description>[Slides&#93;(/doc/2019/09/machine_translation_for_african)		</description>		<dc:date>2019-09-02T00:52:02Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2019/08/sebastian_ruder_sur_twitter_">		<title>Sebastian Ruder sur Twitter : &quot;In the second part of the NLP and speech processing session @DeepIndaba, @alienelf presents her journey and work on machine translation for African languages with @LauraMartinus #DLIndaba2019&quot;</title>		<link>http://www.semanlink.net/doc/2019/08/sebastian_ruder_sur_twitter_</link>		<dc:date>2019-08-29T23:07:37Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://www.uea.ac.uk/~mga07vju/JWP.pdf">		<title>One Hundred Years of Archaeology in Niger</title>		<link>http://www.uea.ac.uk/~mga07vju/JWP.pdf</link>		<description>Author Ann Haour

&gt; Gado (1993) outlines several spheres of cultural influence in the Niger
valley of the past 2000 years based on the regional distribution of key surface
material culture items backed by radiocarbon dates. The first phase,
typified for example by Bura, Kareygusu, Yaasan, and the statuette facies at Kareygoru, occupied the first millennium A.D. and relates to the Songhai sphere. The second, which includes Rosi, Tondikwarey, and the Kareygoru mounds, **involved the arrival of modern local groups such Zarma and Hausa
and the reuse of sites such as Bura, although the people of Kareygusu, for
one, seem to have remained in situ** (Gado, 1993).		</description>		<dc:date>2011-11-14T14:14:20Z</dc:date>	</item>	<item rdf:about="http://webusers.xula.edu/jrotondo/Kingdoms/welcome.html">		<title>http://webusers.xula.edu/jrotondo/Kingdoms/welcome.html</title>		<link>http://webusers.xula.edu/jrotondo/Kingdoms/welcome.html</link>		<description>&quot;Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan,&quot; an electronic exploration  of the history of the African states of Songhay, Kanem-Bornu,  and Hausaland. 		</description>		<dc:date>2004-09-27</dc:date>	</item></rdf:RDF>