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+language:
+- fr
+- fon
+multilinguality:
+- multilingual
+viewer: false
+task_categories:
+- translation
+---
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> Dataset origin: https://zenodo.org/records/4432712
+
+
+## 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.
+
+Fon (also called Fongbe) is an African-indigenous language spoken mostly in Benin, Togo, and Nigeria - by about 2 million people.
+
+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.
+
+Through crowdsourcing, Google Form Surveys, we gathered and cleaned #25377 parallel Fon-French# all based on daily conversations.
+
+To the crowdsourcing, creation, and cleaning of this version have contributed:
+
+1) Name: Bonaventure DOSSOU
+Affiliation: MSc Student in Data Engineering, Jacobs University
+Contact: femipancrace.dossou@gmail.com
+
+2) Name: Ricardo AHOUNVLAME
+Affiliation: Student in Linguistics
+Contact: tontonjars@gmail.com
+
+3) Name: Fabroni YOCLOUNON
+Affiliation: Creator of the Label IamYourClounon
+Contact: iamyourclounon@gmail.com
+
+4) Name: BeninLangues
+Affiliation: BeninLangues
+Contact: https://beninlangues.com/
+
+5) Name: Chris Emezue 
+Affiliation: MSc Student in Mathematics in Data Science, Technical University of Munich
+Contact: chris.emezue@gmail.com
+
+
+
+## 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"}
+```