igttsPro/igede_translate_project

This project aims to build a machine translation system and digital dataset for the **Igede language** spoken in Benue State, Nigeria. It's designed to support language preservation, data accessibility, and AI/ML-based translation. # 🗣️ Igede Language Translation Project This project aims to build a machine translation system and digital dataset for the **Igede language** spoken in Benue State, Nigeria. It's designed to support language preservation, data accessibility, and AI/ML-based translation. ## 📂 Project Structure - `scripts/`: Web scrapers and data cleaning tools. - `data/raw/`: Unprocessed files from Glosbe, Bible, dictionaries. - `data/cleaned/`: Sentence-aligned translation pairs. - `notebooks/`: Exploration, cleaning, and visualizations. - `models/`: Any trained model artifacts. - `app/`: Frontend/backend code (e.g., Streamlit demo). ## Project Structure: igede_translate_project/ │ ├── data/ │ ├── raw/ # Unprocessed data (scraped text, raw Bible texts, dictionaries) │ └── cleaned/ # Cleaned, normalized, aligned sentence pairs for training │ ├── notebooks/ # Jupyter/Colab notebooks for prototyping and EDA │ └── exploratory.ipynb │ ├── scripts/ # Python scripts for automation (scraping, cleaning, aligning) │ ├── scrape_glosbe.py │ ├── align_bible.py │ └── clean_data.py │ ├── models/ # NMT model files, checkpoints, tokenizer config │ └── igede_en_model/ │ ├── app/ # App backend or frontend (e.g., Flask, Streamlit) │ └── translator_app.py │ ├── requirements.txt # List of Python dependencies (requests, pandas, etc.) ├── README.md # Project overview, goals, usage instructions └── .gitignore # To ignore cache, virtualenvs, or large files ## ✅ Getting Started 1. Install dependencies: ```bash pip install -r requirements.txt