Covenant University and OBTranslate have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct research and development projects in a variety of fields, as captioned by the Entrepreneurng report.
The two parties’ Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) covers machine translation, AI, NLP, and linguistics for OBTranslate scientists to continue developing the “OBTranslate” machine translation and generative AI platform.
This is stated in a joint statement released on Sunday by Mr. Emmanuel Gabriel, founder and chief executive officer of OpenBinacle Group, and Prof. Abiodun Adebayo, vice chancellor of the institution.
An online computer assistance tool, neural machine translation, and AI platform have been developed by OBTranslate, a division of OpenBinacle Group, covering more than 2,000 African and European languages. Additionally, it sought to eliminate linguistic divides worldwide and on the continent of Africa.
According to Prof. Abiodun Adebayo’s statement, the university welcomes the collaborative relationship as a new development.
The university’s founding ideas and pillars, according to the vice-chancellor, are firmly based on biblical teachings and are intended to bring about change in Nigeria’s education system and restore the dignity of the black man.
“Covenant University’s dual aims of providing solutions to significant societal challenges and serving as a top global educational institution have placed research at the center of both. These objectives are closely related, and innovations done in pursuit of them have improved the nation’s political, economic, and health outcomes as well as increased Covenant’s prominence.”
“He said that the university’s accomplishment as one of Africa’s top research institutions was made possible by its “world-class faculty, staff, and postgraduate students who are immersed in innovative and cutting-edge research, including studies in bioinformatics, human genome research, cancer research, renewable energy, IOT-enabled smart and connected communities, biotechnology, as well as leadership, arts, humanities, and social sciences, among others.”
He claims that the university’s Center for Research, Innovation, and Discovery oversees these research efforts under the supervision of research clusters and centers of excellence.
Therefore, the university is thrilled about this collaboration with OBTranslate and sees it as another chance to make a significant contribution to advancing the boundaries of knowledge in Africa.
As part of its objectives, OBTranslate will make it possible for ‘free text’ and document translation, speaker devices, cellphones, and humanoid robots to understand African and European languages.
The long-term goal of OBTranslate, according to Gabriel, is to identify each of these languages and offer natural language processing that will support and protect our languages from extinction.
He asserts that one of the company’s earliest AI research projects was the automatic translation of free text and documents from other languages into African languages (or between any two languages).
In conclusion, the preservation of the more than 2,000 African languages spoken in all 55 African nations as well as OBTranslate AI research, he added, depends on this collaboration.
Source: PunchÂ
