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| language: |
| - fra |
| - fon |
| multilinguality: |
| - multilingual |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
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| > [!NOTE] |
| > Dataset origin: https://zenodo.org/records/4432712 |
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| ## Description |
| 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 |
| Affiliation: MSc Student in Data Engineering, Jacobs University |
| Contact: femipancrace.dossou@gmail.com |
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| 2) Name: Ricardo AHOUNVLAME |
| Affiliation: Student in Linguistics |
| Contact: tontonjars@gmail.com |
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| 3) Name: Fabroni YOCLOUNON |
| Affiliation: Creator of the Label IamYourClounon |
| Contact: iamyourclounon@gmail.com |
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| 4) Name: BeninLangues |
| Affiliation: BeninLangues |
| Contact: https://beninlangues.com/ |
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| 5) Name: Chris Emezue |
| Affiliation: MSc Student in Mathematics in Data Science, Technical University of Munich |
| Contact: chris.emezue@gmail.com |
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| ## Citation |
| ``` |
| @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}} |
| ``` |
| ``` |
| @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"} |
| ``` |
