Towards Neural Machine Translation for African Languages

1 code implementation • 13 Nov 2018 • Jade Z. Abbott, Laura Martinus

In the migration of education online, inclusion of machine translation for low-resourced local languages becomes necessary.

Machine Translation NMT +1

A Focus on Neural Machine Translation for African Languages

1 code implementation • 11 Jun 2019 • Laura Martinus, Jade Z. Abbott

African languages are numerous, complex and low-resourced.

Machine Translation Translation

Benchmarking Neural Machine Translation for Southern African Languages

1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Laura Martinus, Jade Z. Abbott

Unlike major Western languages, most African languages are very low-resourced.

Benchmarking Machine Translation +1

Masakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa

2 code implementations • 13 Mar 2020 • Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing Sibanda, Daniel Whitenack, Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Salomon Kabongo, Musie Meressa, Espoir Murhabazi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Elan van Biljon, Arshath Ramkilowan, Adewale Akinfaderin, Alp Öktem, Wole Akin, Ghollah Kioko, Kevin Degila, Herman Kamper, Bonaventure Dossou, Chris Emezue, Kelechi Ogueji, Abdallah Bashir

Africa has over 2000 languages.

Machine Translation Translation

Neural Machine Translation for South Africa's Official Languages

no code implementations • 8 May 2020 • Laura Martinus, Jason Webster, Joanne Moonsamy, Moses Shaba Jnr, Ridha Moosa, Robert Fairon

Recent advances in neural machine translation (NMT) have led to state-of-the-art results for many European-based translation tasks.

Machine Translation NMT +1

1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

no code implementations • 20 Nov 2020 • Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Vukosi Marivate

Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop held on 26th April alongside ICLR 2020, Virtual Conference, Formerly Addis Ababa Ethiopia.