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| # Rifai |
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| **Research and Innovation Frontier in Artificial Intelligence** |
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| Minimal, research-driven AI work — useful systems, clear interfaces, practical innovation. |
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| [Website](https://rifailabs.com) · [Contact](mailto:naira@rifailabs.com) · [Swauti TTS Demo](https://swauti.rifailabs.com) |
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| ## About |
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| Rifai is built around a simple principle: build things that are actually useful. |
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| We work across the full stack — from foundational research to production-ready systems — with a focus on language, reasoning, and human-centered AI interfaces. |
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| ## Research |
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| Selected publications from the Rifai team: |
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| | [Harnessing Transfer Learning from Swahili: Advancing Solutions for Comorian Dialects](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12143) | Deep Learning Indaba | 2024 | |
| | [Preserving Comorian Linguistic Heritage: Bidirectional Transliteration Between the Latin Alphabet and the Kamar-Eddine System](https://aclanthology.org/2025.latechclfl-1.2/) | LaTeCH-CLfL @ ACL 2025 | 2025 | |
| | [Datasets Creation and Empirical Evaluations of Cross-Lingual Learning on Extremely Low-Resource Languages: A Focus on Comorian Dialects](https://aclanthology.org/2024.law-1.14/) | LAW-XVIII @ EACL 2024 | 2024 | |
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| > Full list on [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9ED-kHsAAAAJ&hl=en) |
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| ## Work |
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| We focus on three areas: |
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| **Applied Research** — Prototypes and experiments at the intersection of research and engineering: models, datasets, and evaluation workflows. |
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| **Language & Reasoning** — Exploration around large language models, structured reasoning, and robust evaluation. |
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| **Human-Centered AI** — Product-oriented systems designed to be usable, interpretable, and well-scoped. |
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| ## Releases |
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| This organization hosts: |
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| - Models |
| - Datasets |
| - Demo spaces |
| - Internal experiments made public when ready |
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| ## Demos |
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| **Swauti** — Our text-to-speech system. Try it at [swauti.rifailabs.com](https://swauti.rifailabs.com). |
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| ## Contact |
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| For collaborations or early-stage work: [naira@rifailabs.com](mailto:naira@rifailabs.com) |
