Tone-aware Yorùbá NLP toolkit for text preprocessing, tokenization, normalization, and low-resource language AI research.
# Yooba - Yorùbá NLP Toolkit 🇳🇬---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
**Yooba** is a comprehensive Natural Language Processing (NLP) toolkit specifically designed for the Yorùbá language, a tonal language spoken by over 40 million people primarily in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.language:
- yo
## 🎯 Key Achievementslicense:
- cc-by-nc-4.0
### 1. **Large-Scale Yorùbá Corpus Processing** 📚multilinguality:
- Successfully processed **562,238 sentences** from the Yorùbá C3 dataset- monolingual
- Built a robust data pipeline handling text extraction, cleaning, and normalizationsize_categories:
- Preserved linguistic integrity including tone marks (àáèéẹọṣ, etc.)- 100K