RESEARCH PRIORITY

African languages & digital access

Digital services should work in the languages people use.

SDG 2Zero HungerSDG 10Reduced InequalitiesSDG 16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Area 2 of 2 · Proposed research direction

Local-language information retrieval

A selected language and public-service workflow

Thematic alignment assessed by Axum; not an endorsement or funding commitment from the United Nations.

Research question

Can people find accurate information using the terms they use locally?

Product direction

A retrieval tool evaluated against real service questions.

What needs to be established

Measure consequential errors and successful answers against an existing search baseline.

Evidence and further reading

AfroBench · ACL 2025

The source provides context or existing research. The proposed product direction is an Axum discovery hypothesis, not a finding that a new invention is patentable.

AXUM FUNDING

Funding allocated to this research area

Not yet reported

No verified Axum allocation has been published for local-language information retrieval. This is not a statement that funding is zero.

This section covers funding allocated through Axum. Supporter pledges and external research funding are excluded.

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