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.
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.
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.
1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Laura Martinus, Jade Z. Abbott
Unlike major Western languages, most African languages are very low-resourced.
1 code implementation • 11 Jun 2019 • Laura Martinus, Jade Z. Abbott
African languages are numerous, complex and low-resourced.
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.