Michael Leventhal

Principal Researcher, RobotsMali

Joined

August 2023

Names

Michael Leventhal (Preferred)

Emails

****@robotsmali.org (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

RobotsMali (robotsmali.org)

2016 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

low-resource languages

African languages

AI for Development

2017 – 2026

parallel semiconductor architectures

non-Von Neumann computing

2009 – 2025

XML

1992 – 2012

Publications

Kunnafonidilaw ka Cadeau: an ASR dataset of present-day Bambara
Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum COULIBALY, Panga Azazia Kamate
- AfricaNLP 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Dealing with the Hard Facts of Low-Resource African NLP
Michael Leventhal, Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum COULIBALY, Panga Azazia Kamaté, Aymane Dembélé, Madani Amadou Tall, Emmanuel Élisé Koné
- AfricaNLP 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Cost Analysis of Human-corrected Transcription for Predominately Oral Languages
Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Michael Leventhal
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Mapping the Potentials and Limitations of Using Generative AI Technologies to Address Socio-Economic Challenges in LMICs [version 1]
Rachel Adams, Fola Adeleke, Leah Junck, Ayantola Alayande, Samuel Segun, Aarushi Gupta, Urvashi Aneja, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi, Selamawit Abdella, Mark Gaffley, Scott Mahoney, Joao Archegas, Nana Eghele Adade, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Darlington Akogo, Chinazo Anebelundu, Liping Bian, Zameer Brey, Moinul Chowdhury, Dave Cohen et al. (130 additional authors not shown)
- VeriXiv
- Readers: Everyone
The Serendipity of Claude AI: Case of the 13 Low-Resource National Languages of Mali
Alou Dembele, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Michael Leventhal
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
GAIfE: Using GenAI to Improve Literacy in Low-resourced Settings
Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Seydou Diallo, Sébastien Diarra, Christopher M. Homan, Mamadou K. Keita, Michael Leventhal
- NAACL (Findings) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Griots Interviews, Bambara Language WAV, 30 hours, Recorded 2022, Cultural and ASR Training Resource
Sebastien Diarra, Michael Leventhal
- Zenodo
- Readers: Everyone
Domain-specific MT for Low-resource Languages: The case of Bambara-French
Allahsera Auguste Tapo, Michael Leventhal, Sarah Luger, Christopher M. Homan, Marcos Zampieri
- AfricaNLP 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Health Care Misinformation: an Artificial Intelligence Challenge for Low-resource languages
Sarah Luger, Martina Anto-Ocrah, Allahsera Tapo, Christopher Homan, Marcos Zampieri, Michael Leventhal
- AI4SG@AAAI Fall Symposium 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Assessing Human Translations from French to Bambara for Machine Learning: a Pilot Study
Michael Leventhal, Allahsera Tapo, Sarah Luger, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan
- AfricaNLP 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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