2020

Igbo-English Machine Translation: An Evaluation Benchmark

Ezeani, Ignatius, Rayson, Paul, Onyenwe, Ikechukwu et al.

Understand

Although researchers and practitioners are pushing the boundaries and enhancing the capacities of NLP tools and methods, works on African languages are lagging.

  • A lot of focus on well resourced languages such as English, Japanese, German, French, Russian, Mandarin Chinese etc.
  • Over 97% of the world's 7000 languages, including African languages, are low resourced for NLP i.e.
  • they have little or no data, tools, and techniques for NLP research.

Built on

  • Parallel data, tools and interfaces in opus

    Jörg Tiedemann · 2012

    Earlier work this paper cites.

  • Assessing inter-annotator agreement for translation error annotation

    Arle Lommel, Maja Popovic, and Aljoscha Burchardt · 2014

    Earlier work this paper cites.

Similar

  • Part-of-speech tagset and corpus development for igbo, an african language

    Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Chinedu Uchechukwu, and Mark Hepple · 2014

    Cited alongside, same era.

  • Automatic restoration of diacritics for igbo language

    Ignatius Ezeani, Mark Hepple, and Ikechukwu Onyenwe · 2016

    Cited alongside, same era.

Then

  • Transferred embeddings for igbo similarity, analogy, and diacritic restoration tasks

    Ignatius Ezeani, Ikechukwu Onyenwe, and Mark Hepple · 2018

    Later among the works it cites.

  • Toward an effective igbo part-of-speech tagger

    Ikechukwu E Onyenwe, Mark Hepple, Uchechukwu Chinedu, and Ignatius Ezeani · 2019

    Later among the works it cites.

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