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---
language:
- hau
- eng
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
- translation
- hausa-to-english
- opus-mt
- seq2seq
- hf-aware
- africa
- low-resource
pipeline_tag: translation
---
# Hausa → English Translation Model (`localenlp-hau-eng-0.01`)
This model is a fine-tuned version of [`Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en`](https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en) for translating **Hausa (hau) to English (eng)**. It was trained on **16,000 parallel sentence pairs** and achieves strong performance on held-out test sets.
Developed and maintained by **LocaleNLP** — advancing African language technologies.
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## Metrics
BLEU Score: 49.62
chrF Score: 76.49
## Limitations and Bias
Data Limitations: Training data of 15k sentences may not cover all Hausa dialects and domains
Bias Potential: May reflect biases present in the training data
Format Sensitivity: Performance may vary with input formatting and punctuation
Domain Adaptation: Best performance on text similar to training data
## Model Card Authors
[Mgolo/LocaleNLP]
## Framework Versions
Transformers 4.30.0
PyTorch 2.0.0+
Tokenizers 0.13.3