Ngambay-French Neural Machine Translation (sba-Fr)
| Autor: | Sari, Sakayo Toadoum, Fan, Angela, Seknewna, Lema Logamou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | In Africa, and the world at large, there is an increasing focus on developing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems to overcome language barriers. NMT for Low-resource language is particularly compelling as it involves learning with limited labelled data. However, obtaining a well-aligned parallel corpus for low-resource languages can be challenging. The disparity between the technological advancement of a few global languages and the lack of research on NMT for local languages in Chad is striking. End-to-end NMT trials on low-resource Chad languages have not been attempted. Additionally, there is a dearth of online and well-structured data gathering for research in Natural Language Processing, unlike some African languages. However, a guided approach for data gathering can produce bitext data for many Chadian language translation pairs with well-known languages that have ample data. In this project, we created the first sba-Fr Dataset, which is a corpus of Ngambay-to-French translations, and fine-tuned three pre-trained models using this dataset. Our experiments show that the M2M100 model outperforms other models with high BLEU scores on both original and original+synthetic data. The publicly available bitext dataset can be used for research purposes. Comment: Accepted at RANLP 2023 - International Workshop NLP tools and resources for translation and interpreting applications |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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