Low-resource Neural Machine Translation: Benchmarking State-of-the-art Transformer for Wolof<->French

no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Alla Lo, Elhadji Mamadou Nguer, Sileye Ba

For such models, using backtranslation proves to be slightly beneficial in low-resource Wolof to high-resource French language translation for the transformer-based models.

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Digraph of Senegal s local languages: issues, challenges and prospects of their transliteration

no code implementations • 5 May 2020 • Elhadji Mamadou Nguer, Diop Sokhna Bao, Yacoub Ahmed Fall, Mouhamadou Khoule

Writing with Latin characters is used for localization of ICT (Web, dictionaries, Windows and Google tools translated in Wolof, etc.

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SENCORPUS: A French-Wolof Parallel Corpus

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Elhadji Mamadou Nguer, Alla Lo, Cheikh M. Bamba Dione, Sileye O. Ba, Moussa Lo

In this paper, we report efforts towards the acquisition and construction of a bilingual parallel corpus between French and Wolof, a Niger-Congo language belonging to the Northern branch of the Atlantic group.

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