Yorùbá NLP - Introductions

Greetings !
This is the introduction thread for Yorùbá NLP practitioners.
Welcome, and please introduce yourself and let us know:

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

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I’m David Adelani, dadelani on Github, @Davlan on HuggingFace, and @davlanade
on Twitter.
Very interested in the development of NLP resources for African language. I was involved the development of FastText embeddings for Yorùbá, text classification and named entity recognition datasets Hugging Face – On a mission to solve NLP, one commit at a time.

Working on NER datasets and developing BERT LMs for African languages

I speak Yorùbá, English and a little German

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