Understand
Nigerian Pidgin is arguably the most widely spoken language in Nigeria.
- Variants of this language are also spoken across West and Central Africa, making it a very important language.
- This work aims to establish supervised and unsupervised neural machine translation (NMT) baselines between English and Nigerian Pidgin.
- We implement and compare NMT models with different tokenization methods, creating a solid foundation for future works.
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Neural machine translation of rare words with subword units
Rico Sennrich, Barry Haddow, and Alexandra Birch · 2015
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Bbc starts pidgin digital service for west africa audiences
BBC · 2017
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Attention is all you need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin · 2017
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Towards neural machine translation for african languages
Jade Z Abbott and Laura Martinus · 2018
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