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Neural Machine Translation for South Africa's Official Languages

2020/05/08 by Laura Martinus, Martinus, Laura, Jason Webster +9
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling #cs.CL #cs.LG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2005.06609

workshop paper at AfricaNLP, ICLR 2020

arxiv created 2020/05/08 · openalex publication_date 2020/05/08 · arxiv updated 2020/05/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Recent advances in neural machine translation (NMT) have led to state-of-the-art results for many European-based translation tasks. However, despite these advances, there is has been little focus in applying these methods to African languages. In this paper, we seek to address this gap by creating an NMT benchmark BLEU score between English and the ten remaining official languages in South Africa.

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