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- fr |
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- fon |
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multilinguality: |
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- multilingual |
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task_categories: |
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- translation |
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> [!NOTE] |
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> Dataset origin: https://zenodo.org/records/4432712 |
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## Description |
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We aim to collect, clean, and store corpora of Fon and French sentences for Natural Language Processing researches including Neural Machine Translation, Named Entity Recognition, etc. for Fon, a very low-resourced and endangered African native language. |
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Fon (also called Fongbe) is an African-indigenous language spoken mostly in Benin, Togo, and Nigeria - by about 2 million people. |
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As training data is crucial to the high performance of a machine learning model, the aim of this project is to compile the largest set of training corpora for the research and design of translation and NLP models involving Fon. |
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Through crowdsourcing, Google Form Surveys, we gathered and cleaned #25377 parallel Fon-French# all based on daily conversations. |
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To the crowdsourcing, creation, and cleaning of this version have contributed: |
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1) Name: Bonaventure DOSSOU |
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Affiliation: MSc Student in Data Engineering, Jacobs University |
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Contact: [email protected] |
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2) Name: Ricardo AHOUNVLAME |
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Affiliation: Student in Linguistics |
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Contact: [email protected] |
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3) Name: Fabroni YOCLOUNON |
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Affiliation: Creator of the Label IamYourClounon |
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Contact: [email protected] |
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4) Name: BeninLangues |
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Affiliation: BeninLangues |
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Contact: https://beninlangues.com/ |
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5) Name: Chris Emezue |
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Affiliation: MSc Student in Mathematics in Data Science, Technical University of Munich |
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Contact: [email protected] |
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## Citation |
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``` |
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@article{2103.08052, Author = {Bonaventure F. P. Dossou and Chris C. Emezue}, Title = {Crowdsourced Phrase-Based Tokenization for Low-Resourced Neural Machine Translation: The Case of Fon Language}, Year = {2021}, Eprint = {arXiv:2103.08052}, Howpublished = {African NLP, EACL 2021}} |
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@inproceedings{emezue-dossou-2020-ffr, title = "{FFR} v1.1: {F}on-{F}rench Neural Machine Translation", author = " Dossou, Femi Pancrace Bonaventure and Emezue, Chris Chinenye", booktitle = "Proceedings of the The Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop", month = jul, year = "2020", address = "Seattle, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.winlp-1.21", doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.winlp-1.21", pages = "83--87"} |
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